Rw. Griffiths et G. Veronis, LINEAR-THEORY OF THE EFFECT OF A SLOPING BOUNDARY ON CIRCULATION IN AHOMOGENEOUS LABORATORY MODEL, Journal of marine research, 56(1), 1998, pp. 75-86
Griffiths and Veronis (1997) reported observations of the effect of a
sloping boundary on the circulation in a sliced-cylinder model of wind
-driven circulation in which the flow is driven by the relative rotati
on of the top lid. A summary of observations for the nearly linear cas
e is given here along with the linear analysis based on the theory of
a rotating homogeneous fluid. Good agreement between the two is obtain
ed, and the (straightforward) physics of the system is described.