Lagrangian motion, coherent structures, and lines of persistent material strain

Annual Review of Marine Science

Volumn 5, Issue , 2013, Pages 137-163

  Samelson, R M ^a  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

geophysical fluid dynamics; mesoscale dynamics; modeling; parcel motion

Indexed keywords

COHERENT STRUCTURE; FINITE-SIZE LYAPUNOV EXPONENTS; GEOMETRIC THEORY; GEOPHYSICAL FLUID DYNAMICS; LAGRANGIAN; LAGRANGIAN COHERENT STRUCTURES; LAGRANGIAN MOTION; LAGRANGIAN STRAIN; MESOSCALE; NUMERICAL ALGORITHMS; NUMERICAL TECHNIQUES; OCEANOGRAPHIC STUDY; PARCEL MOTION; TRAVELING WAVE; VELOCITY FIELD;

ALGORITHMS; GEOPHYSICS; MODELS; ORDINARY DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; VELOCITY;

LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; FLOW MODELING; GEOPHYSICAL METHOD; KINEMATICS; LAGRANGIAN ANALYSIS; MESOSCALE MOTION; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; PERSISTENCE; STRAIN; VELOCITY PROFILE;

ARTICLE; GEOGRAPHIC AND GEOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; MECHANICS; MOTION; SEA; THEORETICAL MODEL;

GEOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; MECHANICS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MOTION; OCEANS AND SEAS;

EID: 84872309416     PISSN: 19411405     EISSN: 19410611     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-marine-120710-100819     Document Type: Article

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