Ocean turbulence at meso and submesoscales: Connection between surface and interior dynamics

Geophysical and Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics

Volumn 105, Issue 4-5, 2011, Pages 421-437

  Klein, Patrice ^a   Lapeyre, Guillaume ^b   Roullet, Guillaume ^a   Le Gentil, Sylvie ^a   Sasaki, Hideharu ^c  

^a Centre Bretagne   (France)

^b LABORATOIRE DE MÉTÉOROLOGIE DYNAMIQUE   (France)

^c Japan Agency for Marine Earth Science and Technology   (Japan)

Author keywords

Ageostrophic effects; Boundary interior connection; Ocean turbulence

Indexed keywords

AGEOSTROPHIC EFFECTS; BAROCLINIC INSTABILITY; BOUNDARY-INTERIOR CONNECTION; HIGH RESOLUTION SIMULATIONS; INTERIOR DYNAMICS; MESO SCALE; OCEAN TURBULENCE; POTENTIAL VORTICITY; ROSSBY NUMBERS; SMALL SCALE; SPECTRAL RANGE; SURFACE DENSITY; UPPER LAYER; VELOCITY SPECTRUM;

OCEAN HABITATS; STORMS; TURBULENCE;

DYNAMICS;

AGEOSTROPHIC FLOW; ANTICYCLONE; BAROCLINIC INSTABILITY; KINETIC ENERGY; MESOSCALE MOTION; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; POTENTIAL VORTICITY; ROSSBY NUMBER; SKEWNESS; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; TURBULENCE;

EID: 79960355581     PISSN: 03091929     EISSN: 10290419     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03091929.2010.532498     Document Type: Article

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