Log-Normal Turbulence Dissipation in Global Ocean Models
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Log-Normal Turbulence Dissipation in Global Ocean Models.
Data from turbulent numerical simulations of the global ocean demonstrate that the dissipation of kinetic energy obeys a nearly log-normal distribution even at large horizontal scales O(10 km). As the horizontal scales of resolved turbulence are larger than the ocean is deep, the Kolmogorov-Yaglom theory for intermittency in 3D homogeneous, isotropic turbulence cannot apply; instead, the down-...
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عنوان ژورنال: Physical Review Letters
سال: 2018
ISSN: 0031-9007,1079-7114
DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.120.094501