Anticyclonic vortices are formed by the Rossby wave instability, which can be excited at the gap ... and lifetime of the large-scale vortex formed through merging of the initial small vortices. We ...

In a new study published in Nature Physics, researchers have developed the first controlled method for exciting and observing ...

Kelvin waves are tiny, spiral-like disturbances that move along the length of a quantum vortex in superfluids (like liquid helium at extremely low temperatures) and ultracold atomic gases. These waves ...

(Nanowerk News) Lord Kelvin theorized in 1880 that stimulating a thin vortex line would produce a helical deformation, later known as a Kelvin wave. While these waves have been observed in classical ...

Compressible vortex dynamics and shock wave interactions are critical areas of study in fluid mechanics, particularly in understanding how shock waves behave in various environments and their ...

Abnormal weather events and severe winter storms could be caused by a disrupted polar vortex. Find out here how the polar vortex affects the weather.

The polar vortex can be disrupted by factors such as natural turbulence, high-latitude ocean warming, sea ice loss, sudden atmospheric warming, planetary waves and climate change, says the ...

This winter, it seems as if temperatures have been fluctuating more significantly. Over the past year, it seems as if severe weather events have been occurring more frequently as well. Answers as ...