On quartet interactions in the California Current system
Sea surface height (SSH) altimetry observations for 1992 to 2009 off California are used to show that observed quasi-zonal jets were likely driven by near-resonance interactions between different scales of the flow. Quartet (modulational) instability dominated and caused non-local transfer of energy...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Copernicus Publications
2014-08-01
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| Series: | Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics |
| Online Access: | http://www.nonlin-processes-geophys.net/21/887/2014/npg-21-887-2014.pdf |