Ekman destabilization of inertially stable baroclinic abyssal flow on a sloping bottom

DOI10.1063/1.3211274zbMath1183.76501OpenAlexW2087739842MaRDI QIDQ5304760

Gordon E. Swaters

Publication date: 18 March 2010

Published in: Physics of Fluids (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://semanticscholar.org/paper/2ee3313da94d78c24eecabfd9763e95219bfb1a1

zbMATH Keywords

vorticesboundary layersflow instabilityseafloor phenomena

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Fluid mechanics (76-XX)

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