Vertical transition in transport and mixing in baroclinic flows

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 65, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1137-1157

  Greenslade, M D ^a   Haynes, P H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FUNCTIONS; TURBULENCE MODELS;

BAROCLINIC; BAROCLINIC FLOWS; EDDY MIXING; GAUSSIAN FUNCTIONS; MIXING BEHAVIORS; MIXING PROPERTIES; NUMERICAL SIMULATIONS; PASSIVE TRACERS; PLANE CHANNELS; POTENTIAL VORTICITY (PV); STATISTICAL EQUILIBRIUM; TEMPERATURE FIELDS; TRANSITION (JEL CLASSIFICATIONS:E52 ,E41 ,E31); TRANSPORT BARRIERS; VERTICAL SHEAR; VERTICAL TRANSITIONS;

MIXING;

AIR TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; ATMOSPHERIC TRANSPORT; BAROCLINIC MOTION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EDDY; JET; MIXING; PARAMETERIZATION; POTENTIAL VORTICITY; SHEAR FLOW; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TURBULENCE; ZONAL FLOW;

EID: 43349094482     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2007JAS2236.1     Document Type: Article

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