Abstract: Results elucidating the mechanism by which overstable (oscillating) cellular convection occurs in rotating layers are given. There is a close connection with the elastoid-inertia oscillations in a rotating cylinder discussed ...

Abstract: Certain aspects of Long's experiments (and some later extensions) with fluid motions around obstacles in a rotating hemispherical shell are discussed. For westerly currents, Long demonstrated that Rossby-Haurwitz waves ...

Abstract: Systematic changes in the finite-amplitude vortex instability of axisymmetric elastoid-inertia oscillations in circular bodies of fluid with a quadratic law of depth are shown to occur depending on whether the depth increases ...

Abstract: Rotating thermal convection experiments, of the same type as those carried out in the early 1950's, were conducted using an open cylinder with rim heating and center cooling. Many improvements, especially provision of a ...