On the baroclinic instability of axisymmetric rotating gravity currents with bottom slope

DOI10.1017/S0022112099007661zbMath1008.76021OpenAlexW2159967780MaRDI QIDQ4498132

Gordon E. Swaters, Paul F. Choboter

Publication date: 10 April 2003

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022112099007661

zbMATH Keywords

sloping bottomrotating systemaxisymmetric gravity currentsbaroclinic stability

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Hydrology, hydrography, oceanography (86A05) General theory of rotating fluids (76U05) Stability and instability of geophysical and astrophysical flows (76E20)

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