On the baroclinic instability of cold-core coupled density fronts on a sloping continental shelf

DOI10.1017/S0022112091001799zbMath0717.76049OpenAlexW2156033218MaRDI QIDQ5749041

Gordon E. Swaters

Publication date: 1991

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022112091001799

zbMATH Keywords

compressionlinear baroclinic instabilitytopographic Rossby wavesanticyclonesbaroclinic vortex-tube stretchingcoupled density frontssloping continental shelf

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Hydrology, hydrography, oceanography (86A05) Reaction effects in flows (76V05) Stability and instability of geophysical and astrophysical flows (76E20)

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Cites Work

• Coherent baroclinic eddies on a sloping bottom
• Ageostrophic instability of ocean currents

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