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Effects of rotation and shear on doubly diffusive instability

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 April 2006

Sylvia Worthem,
E. Mollo-Christensen and
F. Ostapoff
Sylvia Worthem
Affiliation:
Sea–Air Interaction Laboratory, NOAA, Miami, Florida
E. Mollo-Christensen
Affiliation:
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts
F. Ostapoff
Affiliation:
Sea-Air Interaction Laboratory, NOAA, Miami, Florida
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Abstract

A linear stability analysis of a doubly diffusive system, with rotation and shear, shows that overstable oscillations can occur in stratifications typical of the equatorial ocean, that internal waves encountering an equatorial current can exchange energy with the current, and that the wave-induced fluxes of salt and heat can lead to layer formation in the salinity, temperature and velocity fields.

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Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 133 , August 1983, pp. 297 - 319
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© 1983 Cambridge University Press

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