The baroclinic adjustment of time-dependent shear flows

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 40, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1851-1865

  Poulin, Francis J ^a   Flierl, Glenn R ^b   Pedlosky, Joseph ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

Baroclinic flows; Shear structure flows

Indexed keywords

BAROCLINIC; BAROCLINIC FLOWS; BAROCLINIC SHEAR; BAROCLINIC SHEAR FLOW; BAROCLINICITY; BAROTROPIC; FINAL STATE; LENGTH SCALE; LINEAR REGIME; MEAN FLOW; NONLINEAR EVOLUTIONS; NONLINEARITIES; PHILLIPS; SHEAR STRUCTURE/FLOWS; TIME-DEPENDENT; TIME-DEPENDENT CURRENTS; TIME-SCALES; TWO LAYERS; WAVE-WAVE INTERACTIONS; WORK STUDY; ZONAL MEAN FLOWS;

OCEAN CURRENTS;

SHEAR FLOW;

ADVECTION; BAROCLINIC MOTION; BAROCLINIC WAVE; BETA-PLANE; NUMERICAL MODEL; OCEAN WAVE; OCEANIC CURRENT; PERTURBATION; SHEAR FLOW; WAVE-WAVE INTERACTION;

EID: 78049246361     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2010JPO4217.1     Document Type: Article

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