Ageostrophic, anticyclonic instability of a geostrophic, barotropic boundary current

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 16, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 3720-3725

  McWilliams, James C ^a   Molemaker, M Jeroen ^a   Yavneh, Irad ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; SHEAR FLOW; VORTEX FLOW;

ANTICYCLONIC INSTABILITY (AAI); BOUNDARY CURRENT; EIGENMODES;

STEADY FLOW;

ANTICYCLONE; FLUID DYNAMICS; FROUDE NUMBER; GEOSTROPHIC FLOW; ROSSBY WAVE;

EID: 7244238093     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1785132     Document Type: Article

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