| Titolo | Spontaneous formation of equatorial jets in freely decaying shallow water turbulence |
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| Tipo di pubblicazione | Articolo su Rivista peer-reviewed |
| Anno di Pubblicazione | 1999 |
| Autori | Iacono, Roberto, Struglia Maria Vittoria, and Ronchi C. |
| Rivista | Physics of Fluids |
| Volume | 11 |
| Paginazione | 1272-1274 |
| Type of Article | Article |
| ISSN | 10706631 |
| Abstract | Results of high-resolution, long time integrations of the shallow water equations in spherical geometry are presented. Final quasi-steady states of the freely decaying evolution are found, characterized by the emergence of robust equatorial jets and by the breaking of cyclone-anticyclone symmetry. It is shown that these two phenomena are intimately related and that global prevalence of anticyclonic vorticity necessarily leads to the formation of a westward (retrograde) equatorial jet. © 1999 American Institute of Physics. |
| Note | cited By 21 |
| URL | https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-0040291825&partnerID=40&md5=78f75f8a39bdcc26e9f19ce1e24ef49b |
| DOI | 10.1063/1.869898 |
| Citation Key | Iacono19991272 |
