The kH-3 and kH-5/3 energy spectra in stratified turbulence

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 2006, Pages

  Kitamura, Y ^a   Matsuda, Y ^b  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOKYO GAKUGEI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; ENERGY TRANSFER; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; TROPOSPHERE;

BOUSSINESQ MODEL; LARGER VERTICAL WAVENUMBER; STRATIFIED TURBULENCE;

METEOROLOGY;

CLIMATE FORCING; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; STRATIFIED FLOW; TROPOSPHERE; TURBULENCE; VORTICITY;

EID: 33646361049     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005GL024996     Document Type: Article

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