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Some effects of stratification and geometry in rotating fluids

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 March 2006

G. F. Carrier
G. F. Carrier
Affiliation:
Harvard University
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Abstract

The phenomena which occur in a fluid contained in a rotating system are strongly influenced by the density gradients in that fluid and by certain features of the geometry. In this paper, we study several specific phenomena which involve stratification and/or irregular surface topography and some phenomena which arise because of an equatorial geometry. Although several of these studies are motivated by particular geophysical questions, we do not treat comprehensively any geophysical phenomenon. Nevertheless, the inferences we draw from these studies do much to clarify the roles of the mechanisms underlying various geophysical phenomena and these inferences should be of value when comprehensive geophysical investigations are attempted.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 23 , Issue 1 , September 1965 , pp. 145 - 172
Copyright
© 1965 Cambridge University Press

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