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The structure of zonal jets in shallow water turbulence on the sphere

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IUTAM Symposium on Turbulence in the Atmosphere and Oceans

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This paper reviews some recent results concerning the formation and structure of zonal jets in forced shallow water turbulence on the surface of a rotating sphere. Attention is given to the role of the Rossby deformation radius in determining the degree to which jets align zonally; to the limiting case of the axisymmetric “potential vorticity staircase”; and to the issue of equatorial superrotation, which is shown to arise robustly when energy is dissipated through a representation of radiative relaxation.

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Scott, R.K. (2010). The structure of zonal jets in shallow water turbulence on the sphere. In: Dritschel, D. (eds) IUTAM Symposium on Turbulence in the Atmosphere and Oceans. IUTAM Bookseries, vol 28. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-0360-5_20

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