title: Instability of some equatorially trapped waves.
abstract: [1] A high-frequency asymptotics approach within the Lagrangian framework shows that some exact equatorially trapped three-dimensional waves are linearly unstable when their steepness exceeds a specific threshold.Citation:Constantin, A., and P. Germain (2013), Instability of some equatorially trapped waves, J. Geophys. Res. Oceans, 118, 2802-2810, doi:10.1002/jgrc.20219.
authors.affiliation: Department of Mathematics, King's College London Strand, Westminster, UK ; Faculty of Mathematics, University of Vienna Nordbergstrasse, Vienna, Austria.
authors.forename: Adrian
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Constantin
authors.affiliation: Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University New York, USA.
authors.forename: Pierre
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Germain
keywords: equatorially trapped wave; instability