%0 Journal Article
%T A Study on the Nonlinear Stability of Fronts in the Ocean on a Sloping Continental Shelf
%A Li Yang
%A Mu Mu
%A Wu Yonghui
%A <br>Li Yang
%A Mu Mu
%A Wu Yonghui
%J 大气科学进展
%D 2000
%I 
%X The baroclinic nonlinear stability of fronts in the ocean on a sloping continental shelf is studied, the model equations, called the frontal geostrophic model, developed by Cushman-Roisin et al. (1992) for des-cribing the dynamics of surface density fronts in the ocean are developed and the two-layer frontal geostrophic model for fronts on a sloping continental shelf is first obtained. The nonlinear stability criteria for the fronts on a sloping bottom are obtained by using Arnol'd (1965, 1969) variational principle and a prior estimate method. It is shown that our result is better than the former works.
%K Fronts in the ocean
%K Frontal geostrophic model
%K Nonlinear stability<br>
%U http://www.alljournals.cn/get_abstract_url.aspx?pcid=E62459D214FD64A3C8082E4ED1ABABED5711027BBBDDD35B&cid=28A2F569B2458C17&jid=5434AFBF6CB6E7E8D67733B541F211C7&aid=F51495D6AF233871277C47141CA6E8FA&yid=9806D0D4EAA9BED3&vid=BCA2697F357F2001&iid=0B39A22176CE99FB&sid=7979125BBE749348&eid=03E56C113B4E5A88&journal_id=0256-1530&journal_name=大气科学进展&referenced_num=0&reference_num=23