A Lagrangian description of transport associated with a fronteddy interaction: Application to data from the North-Western Mediterranean Sea

Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena

Volumn 240, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 282-304

  Branicki, Micha ^a   Mancho, Ana M ^b   Wiggins, Stephen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTO DE CIENCIAS MATEMÁTICAS   (Spain)

Author keywords

Finite time dynamical systems; Finite time hyperbolicity; Finite time stable and unstable manifolds; Finite time transport; Fronteddy interaction

Indexed keywords

DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS; KINEMATICS; LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS;

DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS APPROACH; FINITE TIME; FRONTEDDY INTERACTION; HYPERBOLICITY; LAGRANGIAN DESCRIPTION; NORTH-WESTERN MEDITERRANEAN SEAS; NUMERICAL OCEAN MODELING; UNSTABLE MANIFOLD;

TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

EID: 78650682551     PISSN: 01672789     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physd.2010.09.003     Document Type: Article

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