Shallow water equations on a fast rotating surface

Abstract

We prove that for rotating shallow water equations on a surface of revolution with variable Coriolis parameter and vanishing Rossby and Froude numbers, the classical solution satisfies uniform estimates on a fixed time interval with no dependence on the small parameters. Upon a transformation using the solution operator associated with the large operator, the solution converges strongly to a limit for which the governing equation is given. We also characterize the kernel of the large operator and define a projection onto that kernel. With these tools, we are able to show that the time-averages of the solution are close to longitude-independent zonal flows and height field.