Thermohaline convection of veronis and stern types revisited

Abstract

The present paper prescribes upper limits for oscillatory motions of neutral or growing amplitude in thermohaline configurations of G. Veronis (1965, J. Mar. Res. 23, 1) and M. E. Stern (1960, Tellus 12, 172) types in such a way that it also results in sufficient conditions of stability for an initially top-heavy as well as an initially bottom-heavy configuration. Furthermore, the characterization theorem of Mihir B. Banerjee, J. R. Gupta, and Jyoti Prakash, (1993, J. Math. Anal. Appl. 179, 327) for Veronis' thermohaline configuration follows as a consequence. © 2001 Elsevier Science.