Turbulent dispersion in the ocean

Progress in Oceanography

Volumn 70, Issue 2-4, 2006, Pages 113-125

  Garrett, Chris ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Ocean eddies; Ocean mixing; Turbulent dispersion

Indexed keywords

DISPERSIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OCEANOGRAPHY; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

CONCENTRATION FIELDS; OCEAN EDDIES; OCEAN MIXING; TURBULENT DISPERSION;

TURBULENT FLOW;

EDDY; NUMERICAL METHOD; SPATIAL VARIATION; TURBULENT FLOW;

EID: 33748051042     PISSN: 00796611     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pocean.2005.07.005     Document Type: Article

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