Advective mixing in a nondivergent barotropic hurricane model
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Advective mixing in a nondivergent barotropic hurricane model
This paper studies Lagrangian mixing in a twodimensional barotropic model for hurricane-like vortices. Since such flows show high shearing in the radial direction, particle separation across shear-lines is diagnosed through a Lagrangian field, referred to as R-field, that measures trajectory separation orthogonal to the Lagrangian velocity. The shear-lines are identified with the level-contours...
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عنوان ژورنال: Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics
سال: 2010
ISSN: 1680-7324
DOI: 10.5194/acp-10-475-2010