A new look at Eddy diffusivity as a mixing diagnostic

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 58, Issue 24, 2001, Pages 3685-3701

  Nakamura, Noboru ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFUSION; FLUID DYNAMICS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

EDDY DIFFUSIVITY;

GEOPHYSICS;

ADVECTION-DIFFUSION EQUATION; EDDY; EULERIAN ANALYSIS; FLUID DYNAMICS;

EID: 0035894684     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0469(2001)058<3685:ANLAED>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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