The Universal Aspect Ratio of Vortices in Rotating Stratifi?ed Flows: Experiments and Observations

Oriane Aubert, Michael Le Bars, Patrice Le Gal +1

We validate a new law for the aspect ratio $\alpha =H/L$ of vortices in a rotating, stratified flow, where $H$ and $L$ are the vertical half-height and horizontal length scale of the vo…