The formation of nonzonal jets over sloped topography

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 42, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 1635-1651

  Boland, Emma J D ^a   Thompson, Andrew F ^b   Shuckburgh, Emily ^c   Haynes, Peter H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Baroclinic models; Jets; Ocean models; Orographic effects; Quasigeostrophic models; Turbulence

Indexed keywords

ARBITRARY ORIENTATION; BAROCLINIC; BAROCLINIC MODELS; BAROTROPIC; COHERENT JETS; DOUBLY PERIODIC; DYNAMICAL RESPONSE; EFFECTIVE DIFFUSIVITIES; ENERGY PRODUCTIONS; FLOW ORIENTATIONS; FLOW STABILITY; FLUID PARCEL; JET DEFLECTION; LAYER-WISE; OCEAN MODEL; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; OROGRAPHIC EFFECTS; POTENTIAL VORTICITY GRADIENTS; QUASI-GEOSTROPHIC; QUASI-GEOSTROPHIC MODEL; SCALINGS; TOPOGRAPHIC SLOPE; TRANSPORT BARRIER; TWO-LAYER SYSTEMS; UPPER LAYER;

JETS; OCEANOGRAPHY; TURBULENCE;

ASTROPHYSICS;

BAROTROPIC MOTION; FLOW STABILITY; JET; NUMERICAL MODEL; OROGRAPHIC EFFECT; POTENTIAL VORTICITY; QUASI-GEOSTROPHIC FLOW; TURBULENCE;

EID: 84864523953     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: 15200485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JPO-D-11-0152.1     Document Type: Article

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