Instability of equatorial water waves with an underlying current

Abstract

In this paper we use the short-wavelength instability approach to derive an instability threshold for exact trapped equatorial waves propagating eastwards in the presence of an underlying current.

arXiv commentSecond version, addition of references and minor comments

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