Bifurcations and instabilities in rotating two-layer fluids: I. f-plane

Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics 8:1-2 (2001) 21-36

Authors:

AF Lovegrove, IM Moroz, PL Read

Abstract:

In this paper, we show that the behaviour of weakly nonlinear waves in a 2-layer model of baroclinic instability on an f-plane with varying viscosity is determined by a single, degenerate codimension three bifurcation. In the process, we show how previous studies, using the method of multiple scales to derive evolution equations for the slowly varying amplitude of the growing wave, arise as special limits of the general evolution description. A companion study will extend the results to a β-plane.

Achievements and directions in nonlinear geophysics - Editorial

NONLINEAR PROCESSES IN GEOPHYSICS 8:4-5 (2001) 191-192

Physical Climate Processes and Feedbacks

Chapter in CLIMATE CHANGE 2001: THE SCIENTIFIC BASIS, (2001) 417-470

Authors:

TF Stocker, GKC Clarke, H Le Treut, RS Lindzen, VP Meleshko, RK Mugara, TN Palmer, RT Pierrehumbert, PJ Sellers, KE Trenberth, J Willebrand

Transition to geostrophic turbulence in the laboratory, and as a paradigm in atmospheres and oceans

SURVEYS IN GEOPHYSICS 22:3 (2001) 265-317

Atmospheric pCO2 sensitivity to the biological pump in the ocean

Global Biogeochemical Cycles American Geophysical Union (AGU) 14:4 (2000) 1219-1230

Authors:

David E Archer, Gidon Eshel, Arne Winguth, Wallace Broecker, Ray Pierrehumbert, Michael Tobis, Robert Jacob