Notes on the 1972 Summer Study Program in Geophysical Fluid Dynamics at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Volume II.

Abstract

Contents: Baroclinic flow over an obstacle in a rotating system; thermal and Taylor instabilities in a rapidly rotating annulus; Taylor columns for small Rossby numbers; rectified currents generated by waves and topography; Taylor columns and Rossby wakes generated by isolated topographic features on a beta-plane; on the determination of internal wave parameters; the calculation of nonlinear interfacial waves.

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 1972
Accession Number
AD0767062

Entities

Organizations

  • Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Dynamics
  • Fluid Dynamics
  • Instability
  • Internal Waves
  • Physics
  • Topography
  • Waves

Readers

  • Atmospheric Science / Meteorology, specifically Wind Wave Turbulence.
  • Oceanography.