Eddies and vortices in ocean basin dynamics

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 28, Issue 16, 2001, Pages 3183-3186

  Siegel, A ^a   Weiss, Jeffrey B ^a   Toomre, Juri ^a   McWilliams, James C ^c   Berloff, Pavel S ^b   Yavneh, Irad ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^d TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

KINETIC ENERGY; KINETICS; REYNOLDS NUMBER; COMPUTER SIMULATION; VISCOSITY OF LIQUIDS; VORTEX FLOW; WIND EFFECTS;

EDDY KINETIC ENERGY; HORIZONTAL RESOLUTION; QUALITATIVE CHANGES; QUASI-GEOSTROPHIC; RATE OF INCREASE; VISCOSITY COEFFICIENT; VORTEX STRUCTURES; VORTICITY FLUX;

VORTEX FLOW; OCEANOGRAPHY;

OCEAN MODELS;

CURRENT; EDDY; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; VORTEX;

EID: 0035880423     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999GL011246     Document Type: Article

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