Jet sharpening by turbulent mixing

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 369, Issue 1937, 2011, Pages 754-770

  Dritschel, D G ^a   Scott, R K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Jets; Potential vorticity; Turbulent mixing

Indexed keywords

OCEAN CURRENTS;

COHERENT VORTICES; FLOW DEVELOPMENT; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; NUMERICAL RESOLUTION; PARAMETER SPACES; PLANETARY ATMOSPHERE; POTENTIAL VORTICITY; QUASI-GEOSTROPHIC MODEL; RANDOM FLOWS; SINGLE LAYER; STRONG CURRENTS; TURBULENT MIXING; TWO PARAMETER; VORTICITY GRADIENTS;

VORTICITY;

EID: 79951860659     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2010.0306     Document Type: Article

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