The Baroclinic Adjustment of Time-Dependent Shear Flows

Motivated by the fact that time-dependent currents are ubiquitous in the ocean, this work studies the two-layer Phillips model on the beta plane with baroclinic shear flows that are steady, periodic, or aperiodic in time to understand their nonlinear evolution better. When a linearly unstable basic...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Poulin, Francis J., Flierl, Glenn Richard, Pedlosky, Joseph
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: American Meteorological Society 2011
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/62592
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3589-5249