Flows in a rotating spherical shell: the equatorial case

DOI10.1017/S0022112094002545zbMath0862.76090OpenAlexW2147150648MaRDI QIDQ5689309

Richard Schopp, Alain Colin de Verdière

Publication date: 26 May 1997

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022112094002545

zbMATH Keywords

shallow water equationssingularityhydrostatic approximationscale analysisgeostrophic approximationbeta-plane approximationthermal wind relation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Hydrology, hydrography, oceanography (86A05) Vortex flows for incompressible inviscid fluids (76B47) General theory of rotating fluids (76U05)

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Cites Work

• On Trapped Modes of Rotating Fluids in Spherical Shells