Lagrangian and Eulerian lateral diffusivities in zonal jets

Ocean Modelling

Volumn 39, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 114-124

  Riha, Stefan ^a,b   Eden, Carsten ^c  

^a GEOMAR HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR OCEAN RESEARCH KIEL   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Eddy diffusivity; Zonal jet

Indexed keywords

CHANNEL MODEL; DIFFUSIVITIES; DISPERSION RATE; EDDY DIFFUSIVITIES; EDDY FLUXES; EULERIAN; EULERIAN METHOD; FLUX-GRADIENT RELATIONSHIP; LAGRANGIAN; LAGRANGIAN PARTICLE DISPERSIONS; LATERAL DIFFUSIVITY; MEAN FLOW; PARTICLE DISPERSION; PRIMITIVE EQUATIONS; SHEAR DISPERSION; SPREADING RATE; VERTICAL VARIATION; ZONAL JET; ZONAL JETS; ZONAL MEAN FLOWS;

DISPERSIONS; ESTIMATION; LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS; SHEAR FLOW;

DIFFUSION;

DIFFUSIVITY; EDDY; EULERIAN ANALYSIS; JET FLOW; LAGRANGIAN ANALYSIS; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; PARTICLE MOTION; ZONAL FLOW;

EID: 79960278733     PISSN: 14635003     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ocemod.2011.02.002     Document Type: Article

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