Transition from geostrophic turbulence to inertia–gravity waves in the atmospheric energy spectrum

Midlatitude fluctuations of the atmospheric winds on scales of thousands of kilometers, the most energetic of such fluctuations, are strongly constrained by the Earth’s rotation and the atmosphere’s stratification. As a result of these constraints, the flow is quasi-2D and energy is trapped at large...

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Main Authors: Ferrari, Raffaele, Callies, Joern, Buhler, Oliver
Other Authors: Joint Program in Chemical Oceanography
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: National Academy of Sciences (U.S.) 2015
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/97429
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3736-1956
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2278-2811