Instability and flow over topography

DOI10.1080/03091928508245436zbMath0615.76054OpenAlexW1977572787WikidataQ114640436 ScholiaQ114640436MaRDI QIDQ4724303

Geoffrey K. Vallis

Publication date: 1985

Published in: Geophysical & Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/03091928508245436

zbMATH Keywords

stabilitylong-wave approximationtopographyintegral constraintsasymmetric flowFourier modetopographic instabilitynecessary conditions for instabilitybaroclinic instability problemform-drag instabilityquasi-geostrophic beta-plane flowstationary, asymmetric responsetotal, zonally asymmetric fielduniform zonal current

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Stability and instability of geophysical and astrophysical flows (76E20) Geophysics (86A99)

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Cites Work

• Nonlinear stability of fluid and plasma equilibria
• Baroclinic instability over wavy topography
• Rossby wave interactions and instabilities in a rotating, two-layer fluid on a beta-plane. Part II: Stability
• A quasi-linear theory for rotating flow over topography. Part 1. Steady β-plane channel
• Nonlinear stability analysis in multilayer quasigeostrophic systems
• The stability of a Rossby wave

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