Routes to energy dissipation for geostrophic flows in the Southern Ocean

Nature Geoscience

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 48-51

  Nikurashin, Maxim ^a,b   Vallis, Geoffrey K ^a   Adcroft, Alistair ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; CATALYSIS; DISSIPATION; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; FRESHWATER ENVIRONMENT; GEOSTROPHIC FLOW; HEAT BALANCE; KINETIC ENERGY; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; TOPOGRAPHY; TURBULENT BOUNDARY LAYER; TURBULENT MIXING; WIND POWER;

ANTARCTIC CIRCUMPOLAR CURRENT; SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EID: 84871543745     PISSN: 17520894     EISSN: 17520908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ngeo1657     Document Type: Article

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