Dirac-bracket approach to nearly geostrophic Hamiltonian balanced models

Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena

Volumn 164, Issue 3-4, 2002, Pages 152-167

  Vanneste, J ^a   Bokhove, O ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Atmospheric dynamics; Balance; Geostrophy; Poisson structure

Indexed keywords

CONSTRAINT THEORY; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; FLOW PATTERNS; HAMILTONIANS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MULTILAYERS; POISSON EQUATION; VELOCITY;

ATMOPHERIC DYNAMICS; GEOPHYSICAL FLOWS; GEOSTROPHY;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS;

EID: 0037089412     PISSN: 01672789     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-2789(02)00375-5     Document Type: Article

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