Drift solitons in a shallow rotating fluid
Antonova R. A., Zhvaniya B. P., Lominadze Dzh. G., Nanobashvili Dzh. I., Petviashvili V. I.
Solitary cyclones and anticyclones and also a solitary cyclone-anticyclone pair, whose characteristic size is of the order of the Rossby-Obukhov length, are obtained in shallow water in a rotating paraboloidal vessel. Transfer of energy from small vortices to large vortices is observed visually.