PhD Thesis
Surface Effects in Quasi-Geostrophic Dynamics
Papers
Harvey, B. J., Ambaum, M. H. P. and Methven, J.,
in preparation
An axisymmetric model of baroclinic instability in a continuously stratified fluid
Harvey, B. J., Ambaum, M. H. P. and Carton, X. J. (2011),
Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences:
Instability of shielded surface temperature vortices
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Harvey, B. J. and Ambaum, M. H. P. (2011),
Geophysical and Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics:
Perturbed Rankine vortices in surface quasi-geostrophic dynamics
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Harvey, B. J. and Ambaum, M. H. P. (2010),
Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society:
Instability of surface temperature filaments in strain and shear
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Selected Presentations
HHH group talk (November 2012)
Some simple models of baroclinic instability
Departmental seminar (November 2010)
Surface effects in QG dynamics
3rd Meeting of the EPSRC Network on Wave-Flow Interactions (St Andrews, 14-18 June 2010)
Surface quasi-geostrophic vortices
2nd International Conference on High Reynolds Number Vortex Interactions (Brest, 31-3 September 2009)
Filament instability in surface quasi-geostrophic turbulence
Posters
Royal Meteorological Society Conference (Exeter, 27-30 June 2011)
An axisymmetric analytic model of baroclinic instability