Isopycnal averaging at constant height. Part II: Relating to the residual streamfunction in Eulerian space

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 34, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 2740-2755

  Nurser, A J George ^a   Lee, Mei Man ^a  

^a NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; MASS TRANSFER; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; OCEAN CURRENTS; SURFACE PHENOMENA; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION;

EULERIAN AVERAGING; ISOPYCNAL AVERAGING; STREAMFUNCTIONS; TAYLOR EXPANSION; TRANSFORMED EULERIAN MEAN (TEM);

OCEANOGRAPHY;

EULERIAN ANALYSIS; ISOPYCNAL LAYER; NUMERICAL MODEL; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; WATER MASS;

EID: 13644260754     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JPO2650.1     Document Type: Article

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