| contributor author | Firing, Eric | |
| contributor author | Beardsley, Robert C. | |
| date accessioned | 2017-06-09T14:44:12Z | |
| date available | 2017-06-09T14:44:12Z | |
| date copyright | 1976/01/01 | |
| date issued | 1976 | |
| identifier issn | 0022-3670 | |
| identifier other | ams-25569.pdf | |
| identifier uri | http://onlinelibrary.yabesh.ir/handle/yetl/4162366 | |
| description abstract | An experimental method for producing an isolated eddy in a laboratory tank is described, along with the simple viscous theory of the behavior of the eddy in an ordinary cylindrical tank without the ?-effect. The linear inviscid theory incorporating the ?-effect is then developed as an initial value problem, and the solution is found as a summation of normal Rossby wave modes of the basin. This theoretical solution is compared with results from laboratory experiments and with numerical simulations obtained for the ?sliced-cylinder? laboratory model. It is found that nonlinear effects lead to a cyclonic circulation in the northern half of the tank and an anticyclonic circulation in the southern half. Two simple models are developed to account for these induced circulations. | |
| publisher | American Meteorological Society | |
| title | The Behavior of a Barotropic Eddy on a β-Plane | |
| type | Journal Paper | |
| journal volume | 6 | |
| journal issue | 1 | |
| journal title | Journal of Physical Oceanography | |
| identifier doi | 10.1175/1520-0485(1976)006<0057:TBOABE>2.0.CO;2 | |
| journal fristpage | 57 | |
| journal lastpage | 65 | |
| tree | Journal of Physical Oceanography:;1976:;Volume( 006 ):;issue: 001 | |
| contenttype | Fulltext | |