Scaling, spectra and zonal jets in beta-plane turbulence

DOI10.1063/1.1752928zbMath1186.76124WikidataQ61675362 ScholiaQ61675362MaRDI QIDQ3554518

Sergey Danilov, David Gurarie

Publication date: 22 April 2010

Published in: Physics of Fluids (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://semanticscholar.org/paper/87d2f9a0a4b9df1b2ecb70b32511eb3cf2366256

zbMATH Keywords

oceanography; vortices; turbulence; jets; astrophysical jets; geophysical fluid dynamics; coriolis force

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

76-XX: Fluid mechanics

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