The long-time decay of rotating homogeneous flows over variable topography

Dynamics of Atmospheres and Oceans

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 29-50

  Zavala Sanson L ^a  

^a CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIÓN CIENTÍFICA Y DE EDUCACIÓN SUPERIOR DE ENSENADA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Ekman decay; Rotating fluids; Variable topography; Vortices

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; ROTATIONAL FLOW; TOPOGRAPHY; TWO DIMENSIONAL; VISCOUS FLOW; VORTEX FLOW;

EKMAN DECAY; ROTATING FLUIDS; VARIABLE TOPOGRAPHY;

FLOW OF WATER;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FLUID DYNAMICS; NUMERICAL MODEL; ROTATING FLOW; ROTATING FLUID; TOPOGRAPHY; VORTEX FLOW; VORTICITY;

EID: 34548029764     PISSN: 03770265     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dynatmoce.2007.06.002     Document Type: Article

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