Coexisting turbulent climate attractors in a two-layer quasigeostropic model

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 65, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 2994-3001

  Swanson, Kyle ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERICS; DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS; ELECTRON ENERGY LOSS SPECTROSCOPY; FLUID DYNAMICS; KINETIC ENERGY; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; SCHRODINGER EQUATION;

DYNAMICAL STATES; ENERGY CASCADES; FREQUENCY TRANSIENTS; INITIAL CONDITIONS; MEAN FLOWS; MERIDIONAL TEMPERATURE GRADIENTS; NONLINEAR FLUID DYNAMICS; NORTHERN HEMISPHERES; QUASIGEOSTROPHIC MODELS; QUASIGEOSTROPIC; STRANGE ATTRACTORS; TRANSIENT BEHAVIORS; TRANSIENT DISTURBANCES; TRANSIENT KINETIC ENERGIES; TURBULENT BEHAVIORS; ZONAL MEANS;

TURBULENCE;

CLIMATE MODELING; FLOW MODELING; FLUID DYNAMICS; QUASI-GEOSTROPHIC FLOW; TROPOSPHERE;

EID: 56849127626     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2008JAS2593.1     Document Type: Article

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