Universal Spectrum of Two-Dimensional Turbulence on a Rotating Sphere and Some Basic Features of Atmospheric Circulation on Giant Planets

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 89, Issue 12, 2002, Pages

  Sukoriansky, Semion ^a   Galperin, Boris ^b   Dikovskaya, Nadejda ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DAMPING; FRICTION; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; PLANETS; ROTATION; TURBULENT FLOW;

WAVE NUMBERS;

ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE;

EID: 0037120506     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.89.124501     Document Type: Article

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