Nonlinear cascades of surface oceanic geostrophic kinetic energy in the frequency domain

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 42, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 1577-1600

  Arbic, Brian K ^a   Scott, Robert B ^b,c   Flierl, Glenn R ^d   Morten, Andrew J ^a   Richman, James G ^e   Shriver, Jay F ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE BRETAGNE OCCIDENTALE   (France)

^d MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^e NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Eddies; Mesoscale processes; Mesoscale systems

Indexed keywords

ALTIMETER DATA; EDDIES; FILTERED OUTPUT; FREQUENCY DOMAINS; FREQUENCY SPECTRA; GEOSTROPHIC FLOW; GEOSTROPHIC TURBULENCE; LENGTH SCALE; LOW FREQUENCY; MESO-SCALE SYSTEMS; MESOSCALE PROCESS; NON-LINEARITY; NONLINEAR CASCADES; OCEAN GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS; QUASI-GEOSTROPHIC; SAMPLING ARTIFACTS; SATELLITE ALTIMETER DATA; SEA SURFACE HEIGHT; SPECTRAL FLUX; STREAMFUNCTIONS; WAVE NUMBERS;

DIGITAL STORAGE; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; KINETIC ENERGY; RADIO ALTIMETERS; SPECTROSCOPY; TURBULENCE MODELS;

ANEROID ALTIMETERS;

KINETIC ENERGY; MESOSCALE EDDY; OCEANIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; QUASI-GEOSTROPHIC FLOW; TURBULENCE;

EID: 84868102721     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: 15200485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JPO-D-11-0151.1     Document Type: Article

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