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Laboratory experiments in a baroclinic annulus with heating and cooling on the horizontal boundaries
Authors:Timothy L Miller  William W Fowlis
Institution:1. Atmospheric Sciences Division , Systems Dynamics Laboratory, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center , Alabama , 35812 , U.S.A.;2. Low-gravity Science Division , Space Science Laboratory, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center , Alabama , 35812 , U.S.A.
Abstract:Abstract

Experiments have been performed in a cylindrical annulus with horizontal temperature gradients imposed upon the horizontal boundaries and in which the vertical depth was smaller than the width of the annulus. Qualitative observations were made by the use of small, suspended, reflective flakes in the liquid (water).

Four basic regimes of flow were observed: (1) axisymmetric flow, (2) deep cellular convection, (3) boundary layer convective rolls, and (4) baroclinic waves. In some cases there was a mix of baroclinic and convective instabilities present. As a “mean” interior Richardson number was decreased from a value greater than unity to one less than zero, axisymmetric baroclinic instability of the Solberg type was never observed. Rather, the transition was from non-axisymmetric baroclinic waves, to a mix of baroclinic and convective instability, to irregular cellular convection.
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