Marginal instability?

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 39, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 2373-2381

  Thorpe, S A ^a   Liu, Zhiyu ^a,b  

^a BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b OCEAN UNIVERSITY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUOYANCY FREQUENCY; CRITICAL VALUE; DENSE WATERS; EXPONENTIAL GROWTH; FLOW SPEED; MEAN FLOW; MEAN SHEAR; MIXED LAYER; MODIFIED VELOCITY; NATURALLY OCCURRING; RICHARDSON NUMBER; STRATIFIED BOUNDARY LAYERS; TIME-AVERAGED FLOW; TURBULENT REGIONS; WATER SURFACE;

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW; BOUNDARY LAYERS; BUOYANCY; MIXED CONVECTION; STREAM FLOW; THERMAL STRATIFICATION;

STABILITY;

BOUNDARY LAYER; FLOW STABILITY; FLOW VELOCITY; INSTABILITY; RICHARDSON NUMBER; SHEAR FLOW; TURBULENT FLOW;

EID: 73949149976     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009JPO4153.1     Document Type: Article

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