Potential vorticity fronts and the late-time evolution of large-scale quasi-geostrophic flows

DOI10.1017/jfm.2022.194zbMath1504.76097OpenAlexW4221032753MaRDI QIDQ5067757

B. H. Burgess, David Gerard Dritschel

Publication date: 4 April 2022

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/jfm.2022.194

zbMATH Keywords

Charney-Hasegawa-Mima equationkinetic energy fieldlarge multi-level vortexoceanic front modelpseudospectral Lagrangian advection methodrapidly rotating shallow fluid layerwell-mixed potential vorticity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Hydrology, hydrography, oceanography (86A05) Spectral methods applied to problems in fluid mechanics (76M22) General theory of rotating fluids (76U05) Turbulent transport, mixing (76F25) Geophysical flows (76U60)

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