Dr. Nic Brummell: Penetrative compressible convection: highlight

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Fig 1. Overview of vertical velocity and enstrophy in numerical simulations ofpenetrative convection
Fig 2. Scaling of penetration with stiffness, S.
Fig 3. Scaling of penetration with Rossby number, Ro.

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This page prepared by Nic Brummell, Laboratory for Computational Dynamics, University of Colorado.