Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Part I FUNDAMENTALS OF GEOPHYSICAL FLUID DYNAMICS
- Part II INSTABILITIES, WAVE-MEAN FLOW INTERACTION AND TURBULENCE
- 6 Barotropic and Baroclinic Instability
- 7 Wave–Mean Flow Interaction
- 8 Basic Theory of Incompressible Turbulence
- 9 Geostrophic Turbulence and Baroclinic Eddies
- 10 Turbulent Diffusion and Eddy Transport
- Part III LARGE-SCALE ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION
- Part IV LARGE-SCALE OCEANIC CIRCULATION
- References
- Index
10 - Turbulent Diffusion and Eddy Transport
from Part II - INSTABILITIES, WAVE-MEAN FLOW INTERACTION AND TURBULENCE
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Part I FUNDAMENTALS OF GEOPHYSICAL FLUID DYNAMICS
- Part II INSTABILITIES, WAVE-MEAN FLOW INTERACTION AND TURBULENCE
- 6 Barotropic and Baroclinic Instability
- 7 Wave–Mean Flow Interaction
- 8 Basic Theory of Incompressible Turbulence
- 9 Geostrophic Turbulence and Baroclinic Eddies
- 10 Turbulent Diffusion and Eddy Transport
- Part III LARGE-SCALE ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION
- Part IV LARGE-SCALE OCEANIC CIRCULATION
- References
- Index
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- Atmospheric and Oceanic Fluid DynamicsFundamentals and Large-scale Circulation, pp. 407 - 448Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2006