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Abstract
We investigate the stability of parallel shallow-water flows on an equatorial β-plane. The flow is bounded by fronts on both sides. We focus on the case of a quadratic velocity profile and quartic depth profile. Several new instability mechanisms are identified when the potential vorticity is nonzero.