Balanced and unbalanced routes to dissipation in an equilibrated Eady flow

Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 654, Issue , 2010, Pages 35-63

  Molemaker, M Jeroen ^a   McWilliams, James C ^a   Capet, Xavier ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

geostrophic turbulence; mixing and dispersion; ocean processes

Indexed keywords

ASTROPHYSICS; EDDY CURRENTS; KINETIC ENERGY; KINETICS; REYNOLDS NUMBER;

BOUNDARY DISSIPATIONS; DYNAMICAL EQUILIBRIUM; GEOSTROPHIC TURBULENCE; INVERSE ENERGY CASCADES; MIXING AND DISPERSIONS; OCEAN PROCESS; QUASI-GEOSTROPHIC MODEL; VERTICAL STRATIFICATION;

SHEAR FLOW;

BOUSSINESQ EQUATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISPERSION; GEOSTROPHIC FLOW; KINETIC ENERGY; MESOSCALE EDDY; OCEANIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; REYNOLDS NUMBER; ROSSBY NUMBER; ROTATING FLOW; SHEAR FLOW; TURBULENCE; TURBULENT MIXING;

EID: 77952327197     PISSN: 00221120     EISSN: 14697645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0022112009993272     Document Type: Article

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