Turbulence Theory: Imperfect, but Necessary

A joke briefly circulating was that one of these orders was a ban on using the phrase “turbulence is the most important unsolved problem in classical physics” (Another banned phrase was “further research is needed on this topic”). The phrase is indeed a cliché but it does illustrate a simple truth: turbulence is important, and it is an unsolved problem, and, of relevance to this paper, it is at the core of a number of problems in climate and planetary science.

• Publication year

  2021

• Venue

  AGU Advances

• Publication date

  2021-09-01

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  DOI 10.1029/2021AV000523
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