Determining the Cascade of Passive Scalar Variance in the Lower Stratosphere

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 85, Issue 26, 2000, Pages 5663-5666

  Lindborg, Erik ^a   Cho, John Y N ^b  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; KINETIC ENERGY; OZONE; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; TRANSPORT AIRCRAFT;

LOWER STRATOSPHERE; PASSIVE SCALAR VARIANCE;

UPPER ATMOSPHERE;

ARTICLE;

EID: 0034507157     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.85.5663     Document Type: Article

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