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| Wang, Peng; Mcwilliams, James C.; Menesguen, Claire. |
| The linear instability of several rotating, stably stratified, interior vertical shear flows (U) over bar (z) is calculated in Boussinesq equations. Two types of baroclinic, ageostrophic instability, AI1 and AI2, are found in odd-symmetric (U) over bar (z) for intermediate Rossby number (R-0). AI1 has zero frequency; it appears in a continuous transformation of the unstable mode properties between classic baroclinic instability (BCI) and centrifugal instability (CI). It begins to occur at intermediate R-0 values and horizontal wavenumbers (k, l) that are far from l = 0 or k = 0, where the growth rate of BCI or CI is the strongest. AI1 grows by drawing kinetic energy from the mean flow, and the perturbation converts kinetic energy to potential energy. The... |
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Palavras-chave: Baroclinic flows; Instability; Waves in rotating fluids. |
| Ano: 2014 |
URL: http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00211/32230/30753.pdf |
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