Near-inertial waves and geostrophic turbulence

Jim Thomas, S. Arun

Physical Review Fluids · 2020 · 25 citations · 36 references

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Abstract

The two-mode quasigeostrophic model and associated turbulence phenomenology is a holy grail of geophysical fluid dynamics. An illustration of how wind-generated near-inertial waves in the ocean modify the quasigeostrophic turbulence phenomenology is presented.

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