On the interactions between planetary geostrophy and mesoscale eddies

Dynamics of Atmospheres and Oceans

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 109-136

  Grooms, Ian ^a   Julien, Keith ^a   Fox Kemper, Baylor ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Eddy fluxes; Geostrophic flow; Mesoscale eddies; Modelling

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPIC FEATURES; ASYMPTOTICS; BOUNDARY CURRENTS; BUOYANCY FLUXES; COUPLING TERMS; EDDY FLUXES; EDDY MIXING; FERRARI; GENT-MCWILLIAMS PARAMETERIZATION; GEOSTROPHIC FLOW; GEOSTROPHY; LARGE-SCALE FLOWS; MEAN FLOW; MESOSCALE EDDIES; MESOSCALE EDDY; MODELLING; MULTIPLE-SCALES; MULTISCALES; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; QUASIGEOSTROPHIC EQUATIONS; REDUCED GRAVITY; ROSSBY WAVE; SIMILAR ANALYSIS; THREE SYSTEMS; TRACER FLUXES; TWO-WAY COUPLING;

BUOYANCY; OCEAN CURRENTS;

ANISOTROPY;

ANISOTROPY; BOUNDARY LAYER; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GEOSTROPHIC FLOW; GYRE; MESOSCALE EDDY; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARAMETERIZATION; QUASI-GEOSTROPHIC FLOW; ROSSBY WAVE;

EID: 79957985782     PISSN: 03770265     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dynatmoce.2011.02.002     Document Type: Article

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