Classroom Demonstrations Of Atmosphere-ocean Dynamics: Baroclinic Instability

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Sep 2008

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American Astronomical Society, DPS meeting #40, #18.11; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 40, p.419

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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Here we will present simple hands-on experimental demonstrations that show how baroclinic instabilities develop in rotating fluid dynamical systems. Such instabilities are found in the Earth's oceans and atmosphere as well as in the atmospheres and oceans of planetary bodies throughout the solar system and beyond. Our inexpensive experimental apparatus consists of a vinyl-record player, a wide shallow pan, and a weighted, dyed block of ice. Most directly, these demonstrations can be used to explain winter-time atmospheric weather patterns observed in Earth's mid-latitudes.

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