Eddy fluxes in baroclinic turbulence

• Main Author: Thompson, Andrew F.
• Format: Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis
• Language: unknown
• Published: eScholarship, University of California 2006
• Subjects: Drake Passage; Lambda; Rho; Southern Ocean
• Online Access: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/9td9k9k8; http://n2t.net/ark:/20775/bb61442133

The eddy heat flux generated by the statistically equilibrated baroclinic instability of a uniform, horizontal temperature gradient is studied using a two- mode quasigeostrophic model. An overview of the dependence of the eddy diffusivity of heat D[tau] on the planetary potential vorticity gradient...