Entrainment laws and a bulk mixed layer model of rotating convection derived from large-eddy simulations

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 30, Issue 18, 2003, Pages

  Wang, Dailin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUOYANCY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EARTH (PLANET); ROTATION;

SURFACE BUOYANCY FLUX; EMPIRICAL FORMULAS; MIXED LAYER DEPTHS; MIXED-LAYER MODELS; OCEAN GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; ROTATING CONVECTION; THREE ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE;

GEOPHYSICS; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION;

EARTH ROTATION; ENTRAINMENT; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION; OCEANIC CONVECTION; OCEANIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL;

EID: 0348172350     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2003GL017869     Document Type: Article

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