On latency of multiple zonal jets in the oceans

Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 686, Issue , 2011, Pages 534-567

  Berloff, P ^a   Karabasov, S ^b   Farrar, J T ^c   Kamenkovich, I ^d  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

Author keywords

geostrophic turbulence; quasi geostrophic flows; waves in rotating fluids

Indexed keywords

ASTROPHYSICS; OCEANOGRAPHY; REYNOLDS NUMBER;

BOTTOM FRICTION; DYNAMICAL SIMULATION; FRICTION PARAMETERS; GEOSTROPHIC TURBULENCE; MULTIPLE ZONAL JETS; QUASI-GEOSTROPHIC FLOWS; QUASI-GEOSTROPHIC MODEL; WAVES IN ROTATING FLUIDS;

FRICTION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLOW MODELING; FLUID DYNAMICS; JET FLOW; MESOSCALE EDDY; OCEAN WAVE; QUASI-GEOSTROPHIC FLOW; REYNOLDS NUMBER; ROTATING FLUID; TURBULENCE; ZONAL FLOW;

EID: 84855512744     PISSN: 00221120     EISSN: 14697645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/jfm.2011.345     Document Type: Article

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