Stability investigation for steady solutions of the barotropic vorticity equation in R2

In this paper, we investigate the p-norm stability for vortices of geophysical flows over a surface of variable height that are strict maximizers of the kinetic energy relative to all isovortical flows. In this note, stability means nonlinear stability in the p-norm on the space of vorticity.

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