Transport of momentum and scalar in turbulent flows with anisotropic dispersive waves

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 36, Issue 14, 2009, Pages

  Sukoriansky, Semion ^a   Dikovskaya, Nadejda ^a   Galperin, Boris ^b  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRITICAL GRADIENT; DIFFUSIVITIES; DISPERSIVE WAVES; GEOPHYSICAL FLOWS; LATERAL DIFFUSION; MERIDIONAL TRANSPORT; MIXING MODELS; MOMENTUM DIFFUSION; RICHARDSON NUMBER; ROSSBY WAVE; SCALAR DIFFUSION; STRATIFIED FLOWS; TURBULENT EDDY; TURBULENT TRANSPORTS;

AERODYNAMICS; FLUID DYNAMICS; HYDRODYNAMICS; OCEAN CURRENTS; OCEAN HABITATS; THERMAL STRATIFICATION; TURBULENCE;

DIFFUSION;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ANISOTROPIC MEDIUM; EDDY; GEOPHYSICAL METHOD; MOMENTUM TRANSFER; RICHARDSON NUMBER; ROSSBY WAVE; TURBULENT FLOW; VISCOSITY;

EID: 70349584043     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009GL038632     Document Type: Article

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