Penetrative convection in rapidly rotating flows: Preliminary results from numerical simulation

Dynamics of Atmospheres and Oceans

Volumn 24, Issue 1-4, 1996, Pages 237-249

  Julien, Keith ^b   Legg, Sonya ^a,b,c   McWilliams, Jim ^a   Werne, Joseph ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONVECTION; GEOPHYSICAL FLOWS; PENETRATIVE; ROTATING FLOW; SIMULATION-NUMERICAL;

BOUNDARY LAYERS; CONVECTION; ENERGY TRANSPORT; OCEANIC CONVECTION; PLANETARY BOUNDARY LAYER; PLUME VORTICITY; ROSSBY NUMBER; ROTATING FLOW; ROTATING FLOWS; TURBULENT FLOW;

EID: 0029657520     PISSN: 03770265     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0377-0265(95)00449-1     Document Type: Article

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