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Physical oceanography

a quantity comparing strain and vorticity in a flow, used to separate eddy cores dominated by rotation from straining regions around them.

In physical oceanography, Okubo-Weiss parameter refers to a quantity comparing strain and vorticity in a flow, used to separate eddy cores dominated by rotation from straining regions around them. This meaning comes from Weiss (1991) in Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena.[1]

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Recovery means
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References

Weiss, J. (1991). The dynamics of enstrophy transfer in two-dimensional hydrodynamics. Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena, 48(2-3), 273-294. https://doi.org/10.1016/0167-2789(91)90088-q

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