Statistics of vertical vorticity, divergence, and strain in a developed submesoscale turbulence field

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 40, Issue 17, 2013, Pages 4706-4711

  Shcherbina, Andrey Y ^a   D'Asaro, Eric A ^a   Lee, Craig M ^a   Klymak, Jody M ^b   Molemaker, M Jeroen ^c   McWilliams, James C ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

observations; skewness; statistics; submesoscale; turbulence; vorticity

Indexed keywords

DOPPLER EFFECT; HIGHER ORDER STATISTICS; STATISTICS; TURBULENCE; VORTICITY;

ACOUSTIC DOPPLER CURRENT PROFILERS; HIGH-RESOLUTION NUMERICAL MODELS; OBSERVATIONS; SKEWNESS; SUBMESOSCALE; VELOCITY GRADIENTS; VERTICAL VORTICITY; VORTICITY DISTRIBUTION;

STRAIN RATE;

ACOUSTIC DOPPLER CURRENT PROFILER; DIVERGENCE; MIXED LAYER; MODE WATER; NUMERICAL MODEL; SAMPLING; SKEWNESS; TURBULENCE; UPPER OCEAN; VORTICITY; WINTER;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 84883708104     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/grl.50919     Document Type: Article

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