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The simplified quasigeostrophic equations: Existence and uniqueness of strong solutions
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 26 February 2010
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The quasigeostrophic equations describe large scale motion in the atmosphere and oceans at middle latitudes. Being considerably simpler than the primitive equations, they have been widely used for modelling atmospheric and oceanic circulation, and for studies of stability, frontogenesis and turbulence. A number of assertions have been made about these equations; first, that finite element approximate solutions converge in an open flow region [7]; secondly, that solutions depend discontinuously or nondeterministically on initial data [13]; and thirdly, that the energy wave number spectra of the solutions asymptote to the statistical equilibrium spectra of the spectrally truncated equations [12].
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