Role of Surface-Layer Coherent Eddies in Potential Vorticity Transport in Quasigeostrophic Turbulence Driven by Eastward Shear

The transport by materially coherent surface-layer eddies was studied in a two-layer quasigeostrophic model driven by eastward mean shear. The coherent eddies were identified by closed contours of the Lagrangian-averaged vorticity deviation obtained from Lagrangian particles advected by the flow. At...

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Main Authors: Wenda Zhang, Christopher L. P. Wolfe, Ryan Abernathey
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2019-12-01
Series:Fluids
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2311-5521/5/1/2