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The name, stratified flow, is applied to a flow primarily in the horizontal direction that is affected by a vertical variation of the density. Such flows are of considerable importance in geophysical fluid mechanics. The obvious case of the effect of vertical temperature variations on the wind near the ground is only one of a number of examples in the atmosphere, and the effects of both temperature and salinity variations play an important role in many aspects of dynamical oceanography.
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Tritton, D.J. (1977). Stratified Flow. In: Physical Fluid Dynamics. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-9992-3_16
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