Zonal versus meridional velocity variance in satellite observations and realistic and idealized ocean circulation models

Ocean Modelling

Volumn 23, Issue 3-4, 2008, Pages 102-112

  Scott, Robert B ^a   Arbic, Brian K ^a   Holland, Christina L ^a   Sen, Ayon ^a,b   Qiu, Bo ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b Westwood High School   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

Anisotropy; Jets; Quasigeostrophic turbulence; Turbulent diffusion

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; OCEAN CURRENTS; OCEANOGRAPHY; SATELLITES; SPEED; TURBULENCE; VELOCITY;

AVERAGED VELOCITY; CHAOTIC NATURE; ELSEVIER (CO); HIGH QUALITY (HQ); IDEALIZED MODELS; MESO SCALE; OCEAN CIRCULATION MODELS; PRIMITIVE EQUATIONS; QUASI-GEOSTROPHIC TURBULENCE; SATELLITE ALTIMETRY; SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS; SURFACE FLOWS; TIME SCALING; ZONAL JETS;

TURBULENCE MODELS;

JET; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; MESOSCALE EDDY; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; OCEANIC CURRENT; OCEANIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; QUASI-GEOSTROPHIC FLOW; SATELLITE ALTIMETRY; TURBULENCE; TURBULENT FLOW; ZONAL FLOW;

EID: 47049088496     PISSN: 14635003     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ocemod.2008.04.009     Document Type: Article

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