Chaotic stirring by a mesoscale surface-ocean flow

DOI10.1063/1.1481615zbMath1080.86500arXivnlin/0204011OpenAlexW3099513617WikidataQ47870161 ScholiaQ47870161MaRDI QIDQ5706294

Edward R Abraham, Melissa M. Bowen

Publication date: 7 November 2005

Published in: Chaos: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/nlin/0204011

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Hydrology, hydrography, oceanography (86A05) Dynamical systems in fluid mechanics, oceanography and meteorology (37N10)

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