The persistence of balance in geophysical flows

Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 570, Issue , 2007, Pages 365-383

  Dritschel, David G ^a   Viúdez, Álvaro ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUT DE CIÈNCIES DEL MAR   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVES; GEOPHYSICS; GRAVITY WAVES; NATURAL FREQUENCIES;

FLOW EVOLUTION; GEOPHYSICAL FLOWS; NONLINEAR FLOWS;

VORTEX FLOW;

ACOUSTIC WAVES; GEOPHYSICS; GRAVITY WAVES; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; VORTEX FLOW;

ACOUSTIC WAVE; ADVECTION; EARTH ROTATION; GEOPHYSICS; GRAVITY WAVE; ROTATING FLOW; STRATIFICATION; STRATIFIED FLOW; VERTICAL MOVEMENT;

EID: 33845966765     PISSN: 00221120     EISSN: 14697645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0022112006002990     Document Type: Article

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