A description of local and nonlocal eddy-mean flow interaction in a global eddy-permitting state estimate

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 44, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 2336-2352

  Chen, Ru ^a   Flierl, Glenn R ^b   Wunsch, Carl ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EDDY-MEAN FLOW INTERACTION; NONLOCAL; STATE ESTIMATES;

BAROCLINIC INSTABILITY; EDDY COVARIANCE; FLOW MODELING; FLUID DYNAMICS; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION; NUMERICAL MODEL;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; GULF STREAM; KUROSHIO REGION; PACIFIC OCEAN; SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EID: 84905655410     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: 15200485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JPO-D-14-0009.1     Document Type: Article

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