Co-rotating stationary states and vertical alignment of geostrophic vortices with thin cores

Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 357, Issue , 1998, Pages 321-349

  Sutyrin, Georgi G ^a,b   McWilliams, James C ^a,c   Saravanan, R ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

^c NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLOW INTERACTIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; ROTATIONAL FLOW; STRAIN;

CONTOUR DYNAMICS MODEL; ELLIPTICAL MOMENT MODEL; QUASI GEOSTROPHIC EQUATION;

VORTEX FLOW;

EID: 0032000032     PISSN: 00221120     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0022112097008136     Document Type: Article

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