Two-dimensional turbulence and persistent zonal jets in a global barotropic model

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 55, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 611-632

  Huang, Huei Ping ^a,b   Robinson, Walter A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ROTATING FLOW; SPHERE; TURBULENCE;

BAROTROPIC MODEL; ROTATING SPHERE; TURBULENCE; ZONAL JET;

EID: 0031860282     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0469(1998)055<0611:TDTAPZ>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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