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Topographic generation of submesoscale centrifugal instability and energy dissipation

Most of the ocean kinetic energy is contained in the large scale currents and the vigorous geostrophic eddy field, at horizontal scales of order 100 km. To achieve equilibrium the geostrophic currents must viscously dissipate their kinetic energy at much smaller scale. However, geostrophic turbulenc...

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Autores principales: Gula, Jonathan, Molemaker, M. Jeroen, McWilliams, James C.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5056419/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27681822
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ncomms12811