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Mean flow generated by circulation on a β-plane: An analogy with the moving flame experiment
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A number of laboratory experiments are described in which water with a curved upper surface in a rotating basin exhibited prograde flows when stirred by stirrers which put no azimuthal torque upon the fluid. It is suggested that the flows were generated by Reynolds stresses of the circulating fluid, and that this is a general consequence of circulations on a β-plane. This is reinforced by an analogy between the equations of the moving flame experiment and the equations of flow on a β-plane. Implications upon atmospheric and oceanic flows are mentioned.
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Whitehead (1975) demonstrated that the generation of a train of Rossby waves in a rotating tank with paraboloidal free surface induces a prograde flow at the radius of the forcing, with two weak retrograde flows on both sides of the forcing.
“Whitehead (1975) demonstrated that the generation of a train of Rossby waves in a rotating tank with paraboloidal free surface induces a prograde flow at the radius of the forcing, with two weak retrograde flows on both sides of the forcing.”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Whitehead, J. A.
- Affiliations
- Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (US)
- Corresponding author
- Whitehead, John A.
- ORCID
- Whitehead, John A.
- Venue
- Tellus A: Dynamic Meteorology and Oceanography
- Publisher
- Stockholm University Press
- Published
- 1975-01-01
- Volume
- 27
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 358
- ISSN
- 0280-6495 (ISSN-L)
- 1600-0870
- OpenAlex
- W2146581377
- Cited by
- 44
- References
- 21
- Citations by year
- 2024: 3 · 2021: 2 · 2019: 1 · 2016: 2 · 2015: 1 · 2014: 2 · 2013: 2 · 2012: 2
- FWCI
- 0.61
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- hybrid
- doi.org
- Licence
- cc-by
- Locations
- Tellus A Dynamic Meteorology and Oceanography (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Oceanography › Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Computational Mechanics › Fluid Dynamics and Turbulent Flows
- Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Atmospheric Science › Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
- Keywords
- mean flow generation, beta-plane, circulation, Reynolds stress, rotating fluids, atmospheric flow, oceanic flows
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