Abstract: An analysis concerning the modelling of large-scale atmospheric motions past orographic features in a linearly stratified rotating laboratory experiment is conducted; it is concluded that for an ƒ-plane model the similarity ...

Abstract: The dimensionless governing equations and boundary conditions for the atmosphere are compared with those for a linearly stratified rotating dishpan laboratory experiment; by doing so a set of similarity criteria are ...

Abstract: Laboratory experiments concerned with surface cooling, were conducted to simulate the surface wind patterns and the free atmosphere general circulation in the vicinity of Antarctica. The principal dynamical similarity ...

Abstract: Laboratory experiments were conducted to simulate the diurnal heating-cooling cycle in the vicinity of a ridge of constant cross section. In the model the fluid is a water solution stratified with salt to simulate the ...

Abstract: The problem of the oscillatory motion of a homogeneous, rotating fluid in the vicinity of an isolated topographic feature is investigated in the laboratory and numerically. The laboratory experiments are conducted by fixing ...