Transitions between blocked and zonal flows in a rotating annulus with topography

Science

Volumn 278, Issue 5343, 1997, Pages 1598-1601

  Weeks, Eric R ^a   Tian, Yudong ^b   Urbach, J S ^a,c   Ide, Kayo ^b   Swinney, Harry L ^a   Ghil, Michael ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTOCYCLONE; CORIOLIS FORCE; ROTATING ANNULES; TOPOGRAPHY; WESTERLIES; ZONAL FLOW;

ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERE; CORIOLIS PHENOMENON; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; TOPOGRAPHY; WEATHER;

EID: 0030665951     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.278.5343.1598     Document Type: Article

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47. We thank C. Baroud, M. Kimoto, P. Klein, L. Panetta, P. L. Read, D. Tritton, and three anonymous referees for helpful comments. K. Hartman and G. Llamas helped with the text and W. Weibel with the figures. The experiments were supported by the Office of Naval Research (ONR). The University of California Los Angeles investigators were supported by NSF; M.G. was also supported by the Elf-Aquitaine/CNRS Chair of the Académie des Sciences, Paris. E.R.W. acknowledges the support of an ONR Augmentation Award for Science and Engineering Training and a University of Texas Livingston Fellowship.