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

DOI10.1017/jfm.2021.898OpenAlexW3214178141MaRDI QIDQ5164700

B. H. Burgess, David Gerard Dritschel, Richard K. Scott

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

quasi-geostrophic flowgeostrophic turbulencepotential vorticity mixinglarge-scale flow dissipationRhines scaleRossby deformation lengthtotal kinetic flow energy

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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