On spontaneous imbalance and ocean turbulence: Generalizations of the Paparella-Young epsilon theorem

IUTAM Bookseries

Volumn 28, Issue , 2010, Pages 3-15

  McIntyre, Michael E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; CONTROL NONLINEARITIES; EQUATIONS OF STATE; TURBULENT FLOW;

COLLABORATIVE WORK; EQUATION OF STATE; HORIZONTAL CONVECTION; INERTIA GRAVITY WAVES; SHALLOW WATER MODEL; THERMOBARIC EFFECTS; THOUGHT EXPERIMENTS; TURBULENT DISSIPATION RATES;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

EID: 84862302300     PISSN: 18753507     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-0360-5_1     Document Type: Conference Paper

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