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| Herbette, Steven; Hochet, Antoine; Huck, Thierry; Colin De Verdiere, Alain; Collin, Jeremy; Shillington, Frank. |
| When a source-sink dipole forces a fluid on a beta-plane limited by a western boundary, the linear steady solution can be obtained analytically and consists of zonally elongated gyres that extend west of the forcing and close as western boundary currents. The nondimensional parameter Ro(upsilon) = U/(4 beta a(2)) (with U the zonal velocity of the flow and 2a the distance between the source and sink) is used to characterize the nonlinearity of the flow. When Ro(upsilon) reaches 0.1, the numerical shallow-water solution shows that the configuration with the source to the north of the sink becomes unstable, while the reverse configuration remains steady. Indeed, that reverse configuration remains steady for much larger values of the nonlinearity parameter... |
| Tipo: Text |
Palavras-chave: Beta-plane double-gyre; Source-sink rotating tank experiments; Jet instability; Hopf bifurcation. |
| Ano: 2014 |
URL: http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00211/32182/30652.pdf |
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