Zonal jets and cyclone-anticyclone asymmetry in decaying rotating turbulence: Laboratory experiments and numerical simulations

Geophysical and Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics

Volumn 106, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 557-573

  Espa, Stefania ^a   Bordi, Isabella ^a   Frisius, Thomas ^b   Fraedrich, Klaus ^b   Cenedese, Antonio ^a   Sutera, Alfonso ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Plane turbulence; Cyclone anticyclone asymmetry; Zonal jets

Indexed keywords

CYCLONE-ANTICYCLONE ASYMMETRY; EXPERIMENTAL APPARATUS; FLUID THICKNESS; HIGH RESOLUTION; JET FORMATION; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; LARGE ROTATION; NUMERICAL RESULTS; NUMERICAL SCHEME; RELATIVE VORTICITY; RIGID WALL; ROTATING TURBULENCE; ROTATION SPEED; SHALLOW WATER MODEL; SPHERICAL GEOMETRIES; SYMMETRIC DISTRIBUTIONS; TEMPORAL VARIATION; VORTICITY GRADIENTS; ZONAL JETS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; GEOMETRY; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SHAFTS (MACHINE COMPONENTS); STORMS; VORTICITY;

EXPERIMENTS;

ANTICYCLONE; CYCLONE; DEFORMATION; FROUDE NUMBER; GEOMETRY; NUMERICAL MODEL; ROSSBY NUMBER; ROTATING FLOW; SHALLOW WATER; TURBULENCE;

EID: 84867225771     PISSN: 03091929     EISSN: 10290419     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03091929.2011.637301     Document Type: Article

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