Baroclinic and barotropic aspects of the wind-driven ocean circulation

Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena

Volumn 167, Issue 1-2, 2002, Pages 1-35

  Ghil, M ^a   Feliks, Y ^b   Sushama, L U ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b ISRAEL INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL RESEARCH   (Israel)

Author keywords

Geophysical flows; Localized coherent structures; Ocean circulation; Successive bifurcations; Symmetry breaking

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036643558     PISSN: 01672789     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-2789(02)00392-5     Document Type: Article

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