Laboratory experiments reveal intrinsic self-sustained oscillations in ocean relevant rotating fluid flows

Abstract Several ocean Western Boundary Currents (WBCs) encounter a lateral gap along their path. Examples are the Kuroshio Current penetrating into the South China Sea through the Luzon Strait and the Gulf of Mexico Loop Current leaping from the Yucatan peninsula to Florida as part of the Gulf Stre...

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Main Authors: Stefano Pierini, Paola de Ruggiero, Maria Eletta Negretti, Ilana Schiller-Weiss, Julia Weiffenbach, Samuel Viboud, Thomas Valran, Henk A. Dijkstra, Joël Sommeria
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2022-01-01
Series:Scientific Reports
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-05094-1