On the baroclinic dynamics, hamiltonian formulation and general stability characteristics of density-driven surface currents and fronts over a sloping continental shelf

DOI10.1098/RSTA.1993.0131zbMath0812.76032OpenAlexW2020158783MaRDI QIDQ4301204

Gordon E. Swaters

Publication date: 14 May 1995

Published in: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series A: Physical and Engineering Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1098/rsta.1993.0131

zbMATH Keywords

asymptotic expansionnonlinear stabilitynormal mode stability analysistwo-layer shallow vector model

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Hydrology, hydrography, oceanography (86A05) Water waves, gravity waves; dispersion and scattering, nonlinear interaction (76B15) Stability and instability of geophysical and astrophysical flows (76E20)

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