Formation of jets through mixing and forcing of potential vorticity: Analysis and parameterization of beta-plane turbulence

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 67, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 2717-2733

  Nakamura, Noboru ^a   Zhu, Da ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Jets; Large eddy simulations; Numerical analysis modeling; Parameterization; Turbulence; Vorticity

Indexed keywords

1-D MODELS; CONCENTRATING PV; DECREASING FUNCTIONS; DIFFUSIVE FLUX; DIFFUSIVITIES; DISCRETE MODELS; EFFECTIVE DIFFUSIVITIES; FERRARI; FINITE DIFFERENCE; GRANULAR MATTER; ILL POSED; INITIAL CONDITIONS; MEAN FLOW; MULTIPLE JETS; NON-LINEAR DIFFUSIVITY; NON-LINEARITY; NONLINEAR PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; NONUNIFORM; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS/MODELING; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; PARAMETERIZED; PIECE-WISE; PIECEWISE LINEAR; POTENTIAL VORTICITY; SOURCE TERMS; TIME-SCALES; TRANSIENT BEHAVIOR; WAVE ACTIVITY;

DIFFUSION; IMAGE PROCESSING; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; PARAMETERIZATION; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; PIECEWISE LINEAR TECHNIQUES; TURBULENCE; VORTICITY;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; JET; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARAMETERIZATION; POTENTIAL VORTICITY; TURBULENCE;

EID: 77958614231     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009JAS3159.1     Document Type: Article

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