Systematic deviations from Gaussianity in models of quasigeostrophic turbulence

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 19, Issue 11, 2007, Pages

  Timofeyev, I ^a  

^a University of Houston   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENTROPY; FOURIER ANALYSIS; GEOPHYSICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; STATISTICAL METHODS; TOPOGRAPHY; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

MICROCANONICAL SIMULATIONS; QUASIGEOSTROPHIC TURBULENCE; SPECTRAL TRUNCATIONS;

TURBULENCE;

ENTROPY; FOURIER ANALYSIS; GEOPHYSICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; STATISTICAL METHODS; TOPOGRAPHY; TURBULENCE; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

EID: 36849000180     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2815728     Document Type: Article

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