Macroturbulent Equilibration in a Thermally Forced Primitive Equation System

A major question for climate studies is to quantify the role of turbulent eddy fluxes in maintaining the observed ocean–atmosphere state. It has been argued that eddy fluxes keep the midlatitude atmosphere in a state that is marginally critical to baroclinic instability, which provides a powerful co...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Jansen, Malte Friedrich, Ferrari, Raffaele
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: American Meteorological Society 2012
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/72983
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3736-1956