A note on the numerical representation of surface dynamics in quasigeostrophic turbulence: Application to the nonlinear eady model

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 66, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1063-1068

  Tulloch, Ross ^a   Smith, K Shafer ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUOYANCY FREQUENCY; CORIOLIS PARAMETER; EADY MODEL; ENERGY SPECTRA; ENSTROPHY; FINITE DIFFERENCE; HORIZONTAL MOTION; LAYER-WISE; MODEL YIELDS; NUMERICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL REPRESENTATION; POTENTIAL VORTICITY; QUASI-GEOSTROPHIC FLOWS; QUASIGEOSTROPHIC EQUATIONS; QUASIGEOSTROPHIC TURBULENCE; SMALL SCALE; SURFACE DYNAMICS; SURFACE ENERGIES; SURFACE TEMPERATURES; TEMPERATURE VARIANCE; THEORETICAL PREDICTION; TURBULENT CASCADE; TWO DIMENSIONAL TURBULENCE; TWO LAYER MODEL; VERTICAL GRIDS; VERTICAL RESOLUTION; WAVE NUMBERS;

ADVECTION; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; LAWS AND LEGISLATION; SPECTROSCOPY; SURFACE CHEMISTRY; SURFACE TENSION; TURBULENCE; TURBULENT FLOW;

TWO DIMENSIONAL;

ADVECTION; CORIOLIS FORCE; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; POTENTIAL VORTICITY; QUASI-GEOSTROPHIC FLOW; TURBULENCE;

EID: 65549123972     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2008JAS2921.1     Document Type: Article

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