PowerPoint Presentation - On the two-point correlation of potential vorticity in rotating and stratified turbulence Susan Kurien - Los Alamos National Laboratory Leslie Smith - University of Wisconsin Beth Wingate

NCAR TOY - February 2008

High rotation rate effects - Taylor Columns

•Taylor-Proudman theorem: In rapidly rotating flow, the flow two-dimensionalizes.

•Hogg, “On the stratified Taylor Column” JFM, 1973

•Davies, “Experiments on Taylor Columns in Rotating and Stratified Flow, JFM 1971

•Taylor columns have been observed in the high latitudes, and they frequently involve some degree of stratification too. These are called Taylor Caps. See for example Mohn, Bartsch, Meinche Journal of Marine Science, 2002


	In Taylor’s tank, the cylinder stays fixed but the tank rotates.