Second-moment closures and length scales for weakly stratified turbulent shear flows

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 105, Issue C3, 2000, Pages 6453-6468

  Baumert, Helmut ^a,c,d   Peters, Hartmut ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^c HYDROMOD Scientific Consulting   (Germany)

^d HYDROMOD GbR   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYDRODYNAMICS; RICHARDSON NUMBER; SHEAR FLOW; TURBULENCE;

EID: 0033670258     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999jc900329     Document Type: Article

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