Scales, Growth rates, and spectral fluxes of baroclinic instability in the ocean

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 41, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1057-1076

  Tulloch, Ross ^a   Marshall, John ^a   Hill, Chris ^a   Smith, K Shafer ^b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Baroclinic flows; Eddies; Instability; Mesoscale processes

Indexed keywords

ALTIMETRIC DATA; ANTARCTIC CIRCUMPOLAR CURRENTS; BAROCLINIC; BAROCLINIC FLOWS; BAROCLINIC INSTABILITY; E-FOLDING; EDDIES; KUROSHIO; LENGTH SCALE; LINEAR THEORY; LOCAL APPROXIMATION; LOCAL INSTABILITY; MESOSCALE PROCESS; MIDLATITUDES; POTENTIAL VORTICITY; QUASI-GEOSTROPHIC; RETURN FLOW; SPECTRAL FLUX; THEORETICAL STUDY; VELOCITY SHEAR; ZERO-CROSSINGS;

CLIMATOLOGY; LINEAR STABILITY ANALYSIS; OCEAN CURRENTS; TROPICS;

GROWTH RATE;

BAROCLINIC INSTABILITY; BAROCLINIC MOTION; CLIMATOLOGY; GYRE; MESOSCALE EDDY; OCEANIC CURRENT; POTENTIAL VORTICITY;

ANTARCTIC CIRCUMPOLAR CURRENT; KUROSHIO CURRENT; PACIFIC OCEAN; SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EID: 79960347517     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2011JPO4404.1     Document Type: Article

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