Sloping-boundary Eady edge wave

ID: sloping-boundary-eady-edge-wave

For a semi-infinite stratified fluid with thermal wind above a gently sloping boundary , a zero-interior-potential vorticity perturbation decays as , where . The boundary buoyancy perturbation obeys a single oscillatory equation with phase velocity . The topographic and thermal-wind contributions cancel when the boundary follows a background isopycnal.

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