Bifurcations and instabilities in rotating, two-layer fluids: II. beta-plane

In this paper, we show that the behavior of weakly nonlinear waves in a 2-layer model of baroclinic instability on a P-plane with varying viscosity is determined by a single degenerate codimension three bifurcation. In the process, we show how previous studies, using the method of multiple scales to...

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Main Authors: Lovegrove, A, Moroz, I, Read, P
Format: Conference item
Published: 2002