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We consider quasi-geostrophic (Q-G) models in two- and three-layers that are useful in theoretical studies of planetary atmospheres and oceans. In these models, the streamfunctions are given by (1+2) partial differen- tial systems of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-12-01 Sameerah Jamal

Quasi-geostrophic flow is an asymptotic theory for flows in rotating systems that are in geostrophic balance to leading order. It is characterized by the conservation of (quasi-geostrophic) potential vorticity and weak vertical flows.…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-08-19 Mac Lee , Stefan Llewellyn Smith

The rotating shallow water equations (RSWE) are a mainstay of atmospheric and oceanic modeling, and their wave dynamics has close analogues in settings ranging from two-dimensional electron gases to active-matter fluids. While recent work…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-01-16 Sriram Ganeshan , Alan T. Dorsey

The turbulent evolution of the shallow water system exhibits asymmetry in vorticity. This emergent phenomenon can be classified as "balanced", that is, it is not due to the inertial-gravity wave modes. The Quasi-Geostrophic (QG) system, the…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2026-04-17 Ryan Shìjié Dù , K. Shafer Smith

The derivation of a quasi-geostrophic (QG) system from the rotating shallow water equations on a midlatitude beta-plane coupled with moisture is presented. Condensation is prescribed to occur whenever the moisture at a point exceeds a…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2016-04-14 Joy M. Monteiro , Jai Sukhatme

The aim of this work is to shed light by revisiting - through the kernel-wave (KW) perspective - the breakdown of a quasi-geostrophic (QG) mixing layer (or vortex strip/filament) in atmosphere under the influence of a background shear. The…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-02-06 Luca Biancofiore , Orkan M. Umurhan

We present a geometric derivation of the quasi-geostrophic equations on the sphere, starting from the rotating shallow water equations. We utilise perturbation series methods in vorticity and divergence variables. The derivation employs…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-10-28 Erwin Luesink , Arnout Franken , Sagy Ephrati , Bernard Geurts

In this paper, we study the existence of rotating and traveling-wave solutions for the generalized surface quasi-geostrophic (gSQG) equation. The solutions are obtained by maximization of the energy over the set of rearrangements of a fixed…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-03-09 Daomin Cao , Guolin Qin , Weicheng Zhan , Changjun Zou

In this paper, we consider a family of piecewise constant solutions of the quasi-geostrophic shallow-water (QGSW) equation. We derive the contour dynamics equation of the QGSW front, which is a nonlinear, nonlocal dispersive equation, and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-03-15 Fangchi Yan , Qingtian Zhang

In this paper we construct a large class of non-trivial (non-radial) self-similar solutions of the generalized surface quasi-geostrophic equation (gSQG). To the best of our knowledge, this is the first rigorous construction of any…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-07-26 Claudia García , Javier Gómez-Serrano

The quasigeostrophic model is a simplified geophysical fluid model at asymptotically high rotation rate or at small Rossby number. We consider the quasigeostrophic equation with dissipation under random forcing in bounded domains. We show…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2007-05-23 James R. Brannan , Jinqiao Duan , Thomas Wanner

We present an extensive numerical comparison of a family of balance models appropriate to the semi-geostrophic limit of the rotating shallow water equations, and derived by variational asymptotics in Oliver (2006) for small Rossby numbers…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-08-02 David G. Dritschel , Georg A. Gottwald , Marcel Oliver

The dynamics of large-scale geophysical fluids is primarily governed by the balance between the Coriolis force and the pressure gradient. This phenomenon, known as geostrophic equilibrium, is the basis for the geostrophic model, which has…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2025-10-21 Alejandro González del Pino , Manuel Jesús Castro Díaz , Jorge Macías Sánchez

In this paper, we investigate the wave solutions of a stochastic rotating shallow water model. This approximate model provides an interesting simple description of the interplay between waves and random forcing ensuing either from the wind…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-05-02 Etienne Mémin , Long Li , Noé Lahaye , Gilles Tissot , Bertrand Chapron

We derive regularized contour dynamics equations for the motion of infinite sharp fronts in the two-dimensional incompressible Euler, surface quasi-geostrophic (SQG), and generalized surface quasi-geostrophic (gSQG) equations. We derive a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-05-23 John K. Hunter , Jingyang Shu

We study the representation of solutions of the three-dimensional quasigeostrophic (QG) equations using Galerkin series with standard vertical modes, with particular attention to the incorporation of active surface buoyancy dynamics. We…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2016-04-20 Cesar B. Rocha , William R. Young , Ian Grooms

We study analytical and numerical aspects of the bifurcation diagram of simply-connected rotating vortex patch equilibria for the quasi-geostrophic shallow-water (QGSW) equations. The QGSW equations are a generalisation of the Euler…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-11-14 David Gerard Dritschel , Taoufik Hmidi , Coralie Renault

In this paper, we study the existence of global classical solutions to the generalized surface quasi-geostrophic equation. By using the variational method, we provide some new families of global classical solutions for to the generalized…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-04-23 Daomin Cao , Guolin Qin , Weicheng Zhan , Changjun Zou

This paper investigates time-periodic solutions of both the surface quasi-geostrophic (SQG) equation and its generalized form (gSQG) within the more singular regime, focusing on the evolution of patch-type structures. Assuming the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-10-28 Edison Cuba , Lucas C. F. Ferreira

This paper puts forth a coarse grid projection (CGP) multiscale method to accelerate computations of quasigeostrophic (QG) models for large scale ocean circulation. These models require solving an elliptic sub-problem at each time step,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2013-10-08 Omer San , Anne E. Staples
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