The Eliassen-Palm flux tensor

Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 729, Issue , 2013, Pages 69-102

  Maddison, J R ^a   Marshall, D P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

geostrophic turbulence; ocean processes; quasi geostrophic flows

Indexed keywords

ASTROPHYSICS; HYDRAULICS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; STATISTICAL METHODS; TENSORS;

EDDY-MEAN FLOW INTERACTION; GAUGE TRANSFORMATION; GENERAL COORDINATES; GEOMETRIC PROPERTIES; GEOSTROPHIC TURBULENCE; OCEAN PROCESS; QUASI-GEOSTROPHIC FLOWS; QUASI-GEOSTROPHIC LIMIT;

NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS;

BOUSSINESQ EQUATION; EDDY; HYDROSTATICS; NAVIER-STOKES EQUATIONS; QUASI-GEOSTROPHIC FLOW; ROTATING FLUID; TURBULENCE;

EID: 84880442124     PISSN: 00221120     EISSN: 14697645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/jfm.2013.259     Document Type: Article

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