Inertial and frictional effects on rotating and stratified flow over topography

✍ Scribed by A. Buzzi; S. Tibaldi

• Book ID: 104574651
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1977
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 990 KB
• Volume: 103
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0035-9009
• DOI: 10.1002/qj.49710343508

✦ Synopsis

Abstract

The separate effects of fluid inertia and friction at the lower boundary on the flow of a rotating, stably stratified, incompressible fluid over a three‐dimensional shallow isolated obstacle are investigated.

Analytic solutions of the perturbation equations are obtained as a power series expansion in the Rossby number, and some examples are presented. Possible meteorological applications to the flow over the Alps are discussed.