Quasigeostrophic and stratified turbulence in the atmosphere

IUTAM Bookseries

Volumn 28, Issue , 2010, Pages 117-130

  Bartello, Peter ^a,b  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASTROPHYSICS; ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS;

ATMOSPHERIC DATA; ENERGY SPECTRA; QUASI-GEOSTROPHIC; QUASI-GEOSTROPHIC FLOWS; SMALL SCALE; STRATIFIED TURBULENCE;

ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE;

EID: 84862287599     PISSN: 18753507     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-0360-5_10     Document Type: Conference Paper

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