Lagrangian accelerations in geostrophic turbulence

Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 366, Issue , 1998, Pages 87-108

  Hua, Bach Lien ^a   McWilliams, James C ^b   Klein, Patrice ^a  

^a Centre Bretagne   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; PRESSURE DROP; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; TENSORS; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TOPOLOGY; VISCOUS FLOW; VORTEX FLOW;

GEOSTROPHIC TURBULENCE; LAGRANGIAN ACCELERATION;

TURBULENCE;

EID: 0032117650     PISSN: 00221120     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0022112098001001     Document Type: Article

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