Mean flow generated by circulation on a β-plane: An analogy with the moving flame experiment
Abstract
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.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3402/tellusa.v27i4.9983 | Journal eISSN: 3035-9554
Language: English
Page range: 358 - 364
Submitted on: May 31, 1954
Accepted on: Sep 26, 1954
Published on: Jan 1, 1975
Published by: Stockholm University Press
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
© 1975 John A. Whitehead, published by Stockholm University Press
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