Baroclinic instabilities in the ocean
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Baroclinic instabilities in the ocean
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A baroclinic instability is a fluid dynamical instability of fundamental importance in the atmosphere and ocean. It can lead to the formation of transient mesoscale eddies, with a horizontal scale of 10-100 km. In contrast, flows on the largest scale in the ocean are described as ocean currents, the largest scale eddies are mostly created by shearing of two ocean currents and static mesoscale eddies are formed by the flow around an obstacle (as seen in the animation on eddy. Mesoscale eddies are
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Fluid dynamical instability
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baroclinic_instabilities_in_the_ocean
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2024-03-07T18:31:41Z
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