Nonlinear Radiating Instability of a Barotropic Eastern Boundary Current
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Nonlinear Radiating Instability of a Barotropic Eastern Boundary Current
Linear and nonlinear radiating instabilities of an eastern boundary current are studied using a barotropic quasigeostrophic model in an idealized meridional channel. The eastern boundary current is meridionally uniform and produces unstable modes in which long waves are most able to radiate. These long radiating modes are easily suppressed by friction because of their small growth rates. Howeve...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Physical Oceanography
سال: 2013
ISSN: 0022-3670,1520-0485
DOI: 10.1175/jpo-d-12-0174.1