Dynamics of ventilated coherent cold eddies on a sloping bottom

DOI10.1017/S0022112091001556zbMath0718.76029OpenAlexW2095923982MaRDI QIDQ5750566

Glenn R. Flierl, 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/s0022112091001556

zbMATH Keywords

topographic Rossby wave fieldStern isolation constraint

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Water waves, gravity waves; dispersion and scattering, nonlinear interaction (76B15)

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Cites Work

• Coherent baroclinic eddies on a sloping bottom
• Ageostrophic instability of ocean currents
• Inertial Taylor columns on a beta plane

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