Scales, Growth Rates, and Spectral Fluxes of Baroclinic Instability in the Ocean

An observational, modeling, and theoretical study of the scales, growth rates, and spectral fluxes of baroclinic instability in the ocean is presented, permitting a discussion of the relation between the local instability scale; the first baroclinic deformation scale Rdef; and the equilibrated, obse...

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Main Authors: Tulloch, Ross, Hill, Christopher N., Smith, K. Shafer, Marshall, John C
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: American Meteorological Society 2011
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/66964
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9230-3591