Transport by coherent barotropic vortices

Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 31, Issue , 1999, Pages 55-93

  Provenzale, Antonello ^a  

^a CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

Chaotic advection; Coherent structures; Geophysical fluid dynamics; Transport; Turbulence

Indexed keywords

FLUID DYNAMICS; GEOPHYSICS; ROTATIONAL FLOW; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; VORTEX FLOW; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; FLUXES; ROTATION; TURBULENCE;

CHAOTIC ADVECTION; COHERENT BAROTROPIC VORTICES; GEOPHYSICAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COHERENT VORTICES;

TURBULENT FLOW; FLUID MECHANICS;

ADVECTION; LAGRANGIAN ANALYSIS; TRANSPORT PROPERTY; VORTEX;

EID: 0033489549     PISSN: 00664189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.fluid.31.1.55     Document Type: Article

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