How Earth's Rotation Affects Vortices in Nature
Tuesday, October 15, 2013 - 09:30
in Physics & Chemistry
In a new paper in the journal Physics of Fluids, researchers Junho Park and Paul Billant of the CNRS Laboratoire d'Hydrodynamique in France describe their study of one such geophysical vortex behavior, radiative instability, and how it is affected by two factors, density stratification and background rotation.