# American Institute of Mathematical Sciences

June  2014, 19(4): 1213-1226. doi: 10.3934/dcdsb.2014.19.1213

## Pullback attractors for three dimensional non-autonomous planetary geostrophic viscous equations of large-scale ocean circulation

 1 School of Mathematics and Statistics, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an,710049, China 2 Department of Mathematics, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093 3 Department of Mathematics, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210093, China

Received  June 2013 Revised  January 2014 Published  April 2014

This paper is devoted to the existence of pullback attractors for the process $\{U(t,\tau)\}_{t\geq \tau}$ associated with the three dimensional non-autonomous planetary geostrophic viscous equations of large-scale ocean circulation. We first prove the existence of pullback absorbing sets in $H$ and $V$ for the process $\{U(t,\tau)\}_{t\geq \tau}$ associated with (1)-(8), and then we prove the existence of a pullback attractor in $H$ by the Sobolev compactness embedding theorem. Finally, we obtain the existence of a pullback attractor in $V$ for the process $\{U(t,\tau)\}_{t\geq \tau}$ associated with (1)-(8) by verifying the pullback $\mathcal{D}$ condition $(PDC)$.
Citation: Bo You, Chengkui Zhong, Fang Li. Pullback attractors for three dimensional non-autonomous planetary geostrophic viscous equations of large-scale ocean circulation. Discrete & Continuous Dynamical Systems - B, 2014, 19 (4) : 1213-1226. doi: 10.3934/dcdsb.2014.19.1213
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