Testing the limits of quasi-geostrophic theory: Application to observed laboratory flows outside the quasi-geostrophic regime

Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 649, Issue , 2010, Pages 187-203

  Williams, Paul D ^a   Read, Peter L ^b   Haine, Thomas W N ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASPECT RATIO; BOUNDARY LAYERS; GRAVITY WAVES; LABORATORIES;

BAROCLINIC WAVES; DYNAMICAL EFFECTS; INERTIA GRAVITY WAVES; INTERFACIAL SURFACE TENSION; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; LARGE ASPECT RATIO; QUASI-GEOSTROPHIC; QUASI-GEOSTROPHIC MODEL;

ASTROPHYSICS;

AGEOSTROPHIC FLOW; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FLUID DYNAMICS; GRAVITY WAVE; INERTIA; NUMERICAL MODEL; QUASI-GEOSTROPHIC FLOW; ROSSBY NUMBER; THEORETICAL STUDY;

EID: 77952371953     PISSN: 00221120     EISSN: 14697645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0022112009993405     Document Type: Article

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