The effect of tilted rotation on shear instabilities at low stratifications

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 39, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 3147-3161

  Jeffery, Nicole ^a   Wingate, Beth ^a  

^a LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAROCLINIC; BAROCLINIC INSTABILITY; BASEFLOWS; BOUSSINESQ EQUATIONS; CORIOLIS-FORCE TERMS; EARTH'S ROTATION; FREQUENCY RANGES; HYDROSTATIC EQUATIONS; HYDROSTATIC MODEL; LABRADOR SEA; NON-HYDROSTATIC EQUATIONS; NONHYDROSTATIC MODEL; OCEAN STRATIFICATION; PARAMETER REGIMES; REFLECTION SYMMETRY; ROTATION EFFECT; SHEAR INSTABILITY; SOUTHERN OCEAN; SUB-INERTIAL FREQUENCIES; VERTICAL ROTATION; VERTICAL SHEAR; VERTICAL VELOCITY; WAVE NUMBERS; ZONAL FLOWS;

GRAVITATIONAL EFFECTS; GROUNDWATER FLOW; HYDRAULICS; HYDRODYNAMICS; LINEAR STABILITY ANALYSIS; OCEANOGRAPHY;

ROTATION;

BAROCLINIC INSTABILITY; BOUSSINESQ EQUATION; CORIOLIS FORCE; ROTATION; SHEAR FLOW; STEADY FLOW; STRATIFIED FLOW; ZONAL FLOW;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; LABRADOR SEA; SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EID: 77952505950     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009JPO4138.1     Document Type: Article

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