Inviscid quasi-geostrophic flow over topography: testing statistical mechanical theory

DOI10.1017/S0022112096001565zbMath0859.76032MaRDI QIDQ4714324

Greg Holloway, William J. Merryfield

Publication date: 9 April 1997

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

zbMATH Keywords

barotropic flow; topographic turbulence

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

76F10: Shear flows and turbulence

86A10: Meteorology and atmospheric physics

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