A Lagrangian description of transport associated with a front-eddy interaction: application to data from the North-Western Mediterranean Sea

DOI10.1016/j.physd.2010.09.003zbMath1217.86005OpenAlexW2049496464MaRDI QIDQ629007

Stephen Wiggins, Michal Branicki, Ana Maria Mancho

Publication date: 8 March 2011

Published in: Physica D (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physd.2010.09.003

zbMATH Keywords

dynamical systemLagrangian descriptionfinite-time hyperbolicityfinite-time dynamical systemsbifurcation of the systemfinite-time stable and unstable manifoldsfinite-time transportfront-eddy interactionnumerical ocean modeloceanographic flows

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Dynamical systems in fluid mechanics, oceanography and meteorology (37N10) Meteorology and atmospheric physics (86A10) Computational methods for problems pertaining to geophysics (86-08) Computational methods for bifurcation problems in dynamical systems (37M20)

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