Imperial College London
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ProfessorPavelBerloff

Faculty of Natural Sciences, Department of Mathematics

Professor in Applied Mathematics
 
 
 
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+44 (0)20 7594 9662p.berloff Website

 
 
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745Huxley BuildingSouth Kensington Campus

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Publications

Citation

BibTex format

@article{Khatri:2018:10.3390/fluids3040091,
author = {Khatri, H and Berloff, P},
doi = {10.3390/fluids3040091},
journal = {Fluids},
title = {Role of eddies in the maintenance of multiple jets embedded in eastward and westward baroclinic shears},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/fluids3040091},
volume = {3},
year = {2018}
}
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TY  - JOUR
AB  - Multiple zonal jets observed in many parts of the global ocean are often embedded in large-scale eastward and westward vertically sheared background flows. Properties of the jets and ambient eddies, as well as their dynamic interactions, are found to be different between eastward and westward shears. However, the impact of these differences on overall eddy dynamics remains poorly understood and is the main subject of this study. The roles of eddy relative vorticity and buoyancy fluxes in the maintenance of oceanic zonal jets are studied in a two-layer quasigeostrophic model. Both eastward and westward uniform, zonal vertically sheared cases are considered in the study. It is shown that, despite the differences in eddy structure and local characteristics, the fundamental dynamics are essentially the same in both cases: the relative-vorticity fluxes force the jets in the entire fluid column, and the eddy-buoyancy fluxes transfer momentum from the top to the bottom layer, where it is balanced by bottom friction. It is also observed that the jets gain more energy via Reynolds stress work in the layer having a positive gradient in the background potential vorticity, and this is qualitatively explained by a simple reasoning based on Rossby wave group velocity.
AU  - Khatri,H
AU  - Berloff,P
DO  - 10.3390/fluids3040091
PY  - 2018///
SN  - 2311-5521
TI  - Role of eddies in the maintenance of multiple jets embedded in eastward and westward baroclinic shears
T2  - Fluids
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/fluids3040091
UR  - http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000455379200024&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=1ba7043ffcc86c417c072aa74d649202
UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/67204
VL  - 3
ER  -
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