Oceanic wave-balanced surface fronts and filaments

Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 730, Issue , 2013, Pages 464-490

  McWilliams, James C ^a   Fox Kemper, Baylor ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Ocean processes; Surface gravity waves; Waves in rotating fluids

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; HYDRAULICS;

FLOW PERTURBATIONS; GEOSTROPHIC FLOW; NON-HYDROSTATIC; OCEAN PROCESS; OCEANIC WAVES; SURFACE GRAVITY WAVES; SURFACE LAYERS; WAVES IN ROTATING FLUIDS;

GRAVITY WAVES;

AGEOSTROPHIC FLOW; CORIOLIS FORCE; GEOSTROPHIC FLOW; GRAVITY WAVE; MIXED LAYER; OCEAN WAVE; PERTURBATION; ROTATING FLUID; STOKES FORMULA;

EID: 84886310499     PISSN: 00221120     EISSN: 14697645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/jfm.2013.348     Document Type: Article

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