Conditional statistics of the Reynolds stress in the under-ice boundary layer

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 31, Issue 15, 2004, Pages

  Fer, Ilker ^a   McPhee, Miles G ^b   Sirevaag, Anders ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b McPhee Research Company   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYERS; FRICTION; KINETIC ENERGY; MELTING; REYNOLDS NUMBER; STRESS ANALYSIS;

CUMULANT EXPANSION; HIGHER ORDER MOMENTS; REYNOLDS STRESS; VELOCITY FLUCTUATIONS;

ICE;

ATMOSPHERE-ICE-OCEAN SYSTEM; FRICTION; ICE MECHANICS; REYNOLDS NUMBER; SEA ICE; VELOCITY;

EID: 7044228191     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004GL020475     Document Type: Article

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