Multifractal intermittency of Eulerian and Lagrangian turbulence of ocean temperature and plankton fields

Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 236-246

  Seuront, L ^a   Schmitt, F ^b,d   Shertzer, D ^b   Lagadette, Y ^a   Lovejoy, S ^c  

^a UNIV LILLE   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d ROYAL METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE OF BELGIUM   (Belgium)

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EID: 0001553934     PISSN: 10235809     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/npg-3-236-1996     Document Type: Article

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