Chaotic mixing and transport in Rossby-wave critical layers

DOI10.1017/S0022112096004363zbMATH Open0907.76015MaRDI QIDQ4358947FDOQ4358947

Authors: Keith Ngan, Theodore G. Shepherd 

Publication date: 28 February 1999

Published in: Journal of Fluid Mechanics (Search for Journal in Brave)

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zbMATH Keywords

streamfunctionpassive tracertwo-degree-of-freedom Hamiltonian system

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Strange attractors, chaotic dynamics of systems with hyperbolic behavior (37D45) Hydrology, hydrography, oceanography (86A05) Meteorology and atmospheric physics (86A10)

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