Organization of near-inertial energy by an eddy field

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 130, Issue 598 PART A, 2004, Pages 1153-1166

  Klein, Patrice ^a   Smith, Stefan Llewellyn ^b   Lapeyre, Guillaume ^a  

^a Centre Bretagne   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Inertial oscillations; Mesoscale eddies; Spatial organization

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; INDUCTION HEATING; MARINE BIOLOGY; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; VORTEX FLOW; WATER; WIND EFFECTS;

NEAR-INERTIAL ENERGY; ROSSBY RADII;

METEOROLOGY;

EDDY; NUMERICAL MODEL; SPATIAL VARIATION; VORTICITY; WIND FORCING;

EID: 2142640899     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1256/qj.02.231     Document Type: Article

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