Stirring and transport of tracer fields by geostrophic turbulence

DOI10.1017/S0022112084000720zbMath0559.76049MaRDI QIDQ5184555

Stefan S. Kristmannsson, Greg Holloway

Publication date: 1984

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

zbMATH Keywords

mixinggeostrophic turbulencevorticity fluctuationseffective eddy diffusivity approachfluctuations in tracer concentrationstirring vorticityturbulence-closure theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Hydrology, hydrography, oceanography (86A05) Thermodynamics of continua (80A17) Turbulence (76F99)

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