The ubiquitous zonal jets in the atmospheres of giant planets and Earth's oceans

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 31, Issue 13, 2004, Pages

  Galperin, Boris ^a   Nakano, Hideyuki ^b   Huang, Huei Ping ^c   Sukoriansky, Semion ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^b METEOROLOGICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^c Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

^d BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; CLIMATOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EARTH ATMOSPHERE; JETS; PLANETS; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS); OCEANOGRAPHY;

GIANT PLANETS; MULTIPLE ZONAL JETS; OCEANIC JETS; SMALL-SCALE EDDIES;

OCEANOGRAPHY; PLANETS;

JET; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION; OCEAN; PLANETARY ATMOSPHERE; ZONAL FLOW;

ANISOTROPIC SPECTRA; CLIMATE RESEARCH; ENERGY SPECTRA; FLOW OF ENERGY; INVERSE ENERGY CASCADES; MULTIPLE ZONAL JETS; NORTH PACIFIC OCEAN; ROBUST PATTERNS;

EID: 4644303735     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004GL019691     Document Type: Article

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