On the Indeterminacy of Rotational and Divergent Eddy Fluxes*

(Fox-Kemper, Baylor and Ferrari, Raffaele and Pedlosky, Joseph), Journal of Physical Oceanography, vol. 33, pp. pages, 2003.

Abstract

The decomposition of an eddy flux into a divergent flux component and a rotational flux component is not unique in a bounded or singly periodic domain. Therefore, assertions made under the assumption of uniqueness, implicit or explicit, may be meaningless. Nondivergent,

doi = 10.1175/1520-0485(2003)033<0478:OTIORA>2.0.CO;2

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