Balance in non-hydrostatic rotating stratified turbulence

DOI10.1017/S0022112007009421zbMath1168.76328MaRDI QIDQ5448965

William J. McKiver, David Gerard Dritschel

Publication date: 10 March 2008

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

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General theory of rotating fluids (76U05) Stratification effects in turbulence (76F45)

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Cites Work

• The transition from geostrophic to stratified turbulence
• The persistence of balance in geophysical flows
• Vertical velocity in mesoscale geophysical flows
• A balanced approach to modelling rotating stably stratified geophysical flows
• Optimal potential vorticity balance of geophysical flows
• The shape of vortices in quasi-geostrophic turbulence
• Spontaneous generation of inertia–gravity wave packets by balanced geophysical flows

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