Geophysical flows with anisotropic turbulence and dispersive waves: Flows with a β-effect

Ocean Dynamics

Volumn 60, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 427-441

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^b BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Geostrophic turbulence; Nonlinear waves; Turbulent diffusion

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPIC TURBULENCE; CORIOLIS PARAMETER; DIFFUSION PROCESS; DISPERSIVE WAVES; EVOLVING SYSTEMS; GEOPHYSICAL FLOWS; GEOSTROPHIC BALANCE; GEOSTROPHIC TURBULENCE; GOVERNING PARAMETERS; HORIZONTAL FLOWS; INVERSE ENERGY CASCADES; JET FLOW; MAIN CHARACTERISTICS; NONLINEAR WAVES; PHYSICAL NATURE; SCALAR DIFFUSION; STEADY STATE; STEADY-STATE FLOWS; TURBULENT DIFFUSION; ZONAL JETS;

ANISOTROPY; DIFFUSION; DRAG; WAVES;

ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE;

ANISOTROPY; CORIOLIS FORCE; DRAG; FLOW PATTERN; FLUID DYNAMICS; GEOSTROPHIC FLOW; INVERSE ANALYSIS; JET FLOW; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; NONLINEAR WAVE; TURBULENT FLOW;

EID: 77954759292     PISSN: 16167341     EISSN: 16167228     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10236-010-0278-2     Document Type: Conference Paper

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