From baroclinic instability to developed turbulence

Abstract

The coupled effects of mean shear, density-stratification and system rotation are investigated in the context of strong turbulence, i.e. accounting for the baroclinic instability. Although there exists a large literature in the rotating shear case and the stratified shear case, with linear approaches, Direct or Large Eddy Simulations, very few studies consider the combined three ingredients in the context of distorted homogeneous turbulence