Baroclinic characteristics of frictionally destabilized abyssal overflows

DOI10.1017/S0022112003005135zbMath1056.76018OpenAlexW2131849040MaRDI QIDQ4465429

Gordon E. Swaters

Publication date: 9 June 2004

Published in: Journal of Fluid Mechanics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022112003005135

zbMATH Keywords

internal gravity wavesnear-sill overflow

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Hydrology, hydrography, oceanography (86A05) Internal waves for incompressible inviscid fluids (76B55) Stability and instability of geophysical and astrophysical flows (76E20)

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