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- Title
Anticyclonic precession of a plume in a rotating environment.
- Authors
Frank, D.; Landel, J. R.; Dalziel, S. B.; Linden, P. F.
- Abstract
Motivated by potential effects of the Earth's rotation on the Deepwater Horizon oil plume, we conducted laboratory experiments on saltwater point plumes in a homogeneous rotating environment across a wide range of Rossby numbers 0.02≤ R o≤1.3. We report a striking physical instability in the plume dynamics near the source: after approximately one rotation period, the plume tilts laterally and starts to precess anticyclonically. The mean precession frequency
- Publication
Geophysical Research Letters, 2017, Vol 44, Issue 18, p9400
- ISSN
0094-8276
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/2017GL074191