Formation of large-scale structures by turbulence in rotating planets
@article{Constantinou2015FormationOL,
title={Formation of large-scale structures by turbulence in rotating planets},
author={Navid C. Constantinou},
journal={arXiv: Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics},
year={2015}
}This thesis presents a newly developed theory for the formation and maintenance of eddy-driven jets in planetary turbulence. The novelty is that jet formation and maintenance is studied as a dynamics of the statistics of the flow rather than a dynamics of individual realizations. This is pursued using Stochastic Structural Stability Theory (S3T) which studies the closed dynamics of the first two cumulants of the full statistical state dynamics of the flow after neglecting or parameterizing…
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