caa a22 4500 469084375 CHVBK 20180323133000.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170328e19920901xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/BF02656943 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/BF02656943 A problem related to nonlinear stability criteria for multi- layer quasi-geostrophic flow [Elektronische Daten] [Liu Yongming, Mu Mu] The second author studied the nonlinear stability of N-layer quasi-geostrophic flow subject to perturbations of parameters and initial data, and established the stability criteria for the flow in question, which involve finding out the lowest eigenvalue of an elliptic boundary value problem. In this paper when the domain is a periodic zonal channel, a formula of the lowest eigenvalue is established, which is useful for further studies and practical applications. Advances in Atmospheric Sciences, 1992 Yongming Liu Institute of Mathematics, Anhui University, 230039, Hefei aut Mu Mu LASG, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 100080, Beijing aut Advances in Atmospheric Sciences Springer-Verlag 9/3(1992-09-01), 337-345 0256-1530 9:3<337 1992 9 376 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02656943 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02656943 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Yongming Liu Institute of Mathematics, Anhui University, 230039, Hefei aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Mu Mu LASG, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 100080, Beijing aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Advances in Atmospheric Sciences Springer-Verlag 9/3(1992-09-01), 337-345 0256-1530 9:3<337 1992 9 376 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer