On the spacing of meandering jets in the strong-stair limit

DOI10.1017/JFM.2021.898MaRDI QIDQ5164700zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors B. H. Burgess, Richard K. Scott, David G. Dritschel

Publication date 12 November 2021

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

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1017/jfm.2021.898

zbMATH Keywords

geostrophic turbulencelarge-scale flow dissipationpotential vorticity mixingquasi-geostrophic flowRhines scaleRossby deformation lengthtotal kinetic flow energy

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Turbulent transport, mixing (76F25) Geophysical flows (76U60)

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