Lobe dynamics applied to barotropic Rossby-wave breaking

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 1518-1528

  Koh, Tieh Yong ^a   Plumb, R Alan ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUID DYNAMICS; MIXING; TRACER; TRANSPORT; WAVE BREAKING;

EID: 0034129244     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.870400     Document Type: Article

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