The turbulent circulation of a snowball earth ocean

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 46, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 1917-1933

  Jansen, Malte F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Baroclinic flows; Circulation Dynamics; Eddies; Mesoscale processes; Ocean dynamics; Paleoclimate; Physical Meteorology and Climatology; Turbulence

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; BOUNDARY LAYERS; GEOTHERMAL ENERGY; KINETIC ENERGY; KINETICS; NUMERICAL MODELS; OCEANOGRAPHY; POTENTIAL ENERGY; TURBULENCE; TURBULENT FLOW;

BAROCLINIC FLOWS; EDDIES; MESOSCALE PROCESS; OCEAN DYNAMICS; PALEOCLIMATES;

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS;

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS; BAROCLINIC MOTION; KINETIC ENERGY; NUMERICAL MODEL; SNOW; TURBULENCE; TURBULENT FLOW;

EID: 84962894802     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: 15200485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JPO-D-15-0224.1     Document Type: Article

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