Eddy growth and mixing in mesoscale oceanographic flows

Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 223-235

  Haller, G ^a   Poje, A C ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EULERIAN MODEL; FLUID FLOW; LAGRANGIAN ANALYSIS; MESOSCALE EDDY; MIXING; PARTICLE MOTION;

EID: 0031391945     PISSN: 10235809     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/npg-4-223-1997     Document Type: Article

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