Eddy Transport and Mixing in a Wind- and Buoyancy-Driven Jet on the Sphere

The baroclinically unstable wind- and buoyancy-driven flow in a zonally reentrant pie-shaped sector on a sphere is numerically modeled and then analyzed using the transformed Eulerian-mean (TEM) formalism. Mean fields are obtained by zonal and time averaging performed at fixed height. The very large...

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Main Authors: Cerovecki, Ivana, Plumb, R. Alan, Heres, William
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: American Meteorological Society 2010
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/51813
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6716-1576