How large-scale and cyclogeostrophic barotropic instabilities favor the formation of anticyclonic vortices in the ocean

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 303-328

  Perret, Gaële ^a   Dubos, Thomas ^b   Stegner, Alexandre ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DU HAVRE   (France)

^b ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE   (France)

^c ECOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE   (France)

^d ENSTA PARISTECH   (France)

Author keywords

Anticyclones; Instability; Shear structure flows; Vortices

Indexed keywords

ANTICYCLONES; ANTICYCLONIC EDDIES; ANTICYCLONIC VORTICES; AXISYMMETRIC; BAROTROPIC; CHARACTERISTIC LENGTH; CYCLONIC SHEAR; CYCLONIC STRUCTURES; INITIAL STAGES; INSTABILITY; LARGE-SCALE VORTICES; LINEAR GROWTH RATE; LINEAR STABILITY PROPERTIES; LINEAR STAGES; NONLINEAR SATURATION; ROBUSTNESS PROPERTIES; ROSSBY NUMBERS; ROSSBY RADIUS OF DEFORMATION; SHALLOW WATER EQUATIONS; SHALLOW-WATER; SHEAR DIRECTION; SHEAR STRUCTURE/FLOWS; VORTICES;

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; LINEAR STABILITY ANALYSIS; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; PARALLEL FLOW; VORTEX FLOW;

SHEAR FLOW;

ANTICYCLONE; BAROTROPIC INSTABILITY; EDDY; NUMERICAL MODEL; SHEAR FLOW; VORTICITY;

EID: 79953179734     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2010JPO4362.1     Document Type: Article

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