Perturbed jet (adaptive remeshing) (151.2 MB)

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Solution of the barotropic vorticity equation (BVE) on the rotating sphere for the case of a perturbed zonal jet.  The perturbation wave number is 4, and the BVE is solved using the point vortex approximation and adaptive remeshing.

© Peter Bosler 2013