Coherent vortices and kinetic energy ribbons in asymptotic quasi two-dimensional f-plane turbulence

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 15, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 2177-2189

  Arbic, Brian K ^a,b   Flierl, Glenn R ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; GEOPHYSICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; STATISTICAL METHODS; VORTEX FLOW;

SPATIAL DISTRIBUTIONS;

TURBULENT FLOW;

POTENTIAL VORTICITY; TURBULENT FLOW; TWO-DIMENSIONAL FLOW; UNSTEADY FLOW;

EID: 0042283616     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1582183     Document Type: Article

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