Convection into domains with open boundaries

Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 29, Issue , 1997, Pages 327-371

  Maxworthy, T ^a,b  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Buoyancy; Coastal seas; Polar oceans; Rotation; Stratification; Vortices

Indexed keywords

EID: 0642342324     PISSN: 00664189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.fluid.29.1.327     Document Type: Article

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