Observations of zonal flow created by potential vorticity mixing in a rotating fluid

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 29, Issue 18, 2002, Pages

  Aubert, Julien ^a,b   Jung, Sunghwan ^a   Swinney, Harry L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RESERVOIRS (WATER); ROTATIONAL FLOW;

AXISYMMETRIC; COMMON FEATURES; EXPERIMENTAL AND NUMERICAL STUDIES; PLANETARY SYSTEM; POTENTIAL VORTICITY; POTENTIAL VORTICITY MIXING; ROTATING FLUIDS; THREE ZONES;

VORTICITY;

EID: 0037107320     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2002GL015422     Document Type: Article

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