Explosive instability of geostrophic vortices. I: Baroclinic instability

DOI10.1007/s00162-009-0140-7zbMath1191.76048OpenAlexW4243559347MaRDI QIDQ983582

Xavier Perrot, Xavier Carton, Glenn R. Flierl, Thomas Meunier, Mikhail A. Sokolovskiy

Publication date: 24 July 2010

Published in: Theoretical and Computational Fluid Dynamics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00162-009-0140-7

zbMATH Keywords

parametric resonancevortex stabilityinviscid flowsquasi-geostrophic equationsnormal or singular modes

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Vortex flows for incompressible inviscid fluids (76B47) Rotation in hydrodynamic stability (76E07) Stability and instability of geophysical and astrophysical flows (76E20) Stratification effects in inviscid fluids (76B70)

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Cites Work

• On the instability of geostrophic vortices
• Finite-amplitude evolution of two-layer geostrophic vortices

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