by Laurence Armi and Pierre Flament
Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, La Jolla CA 92093
(J. Geophys. Res. vol. 90 no. C6 pp 11,779-11,782 and 11,837-11,838, 1985)
Received 16 May 1985; accepted 8 July 1985.
Spectral slopes are shown to be only very weak constraints for testing turbulence theories. They are primarily a consequence of applying spectral analysis to flows that are not wavelike but contain simple structures represented by a broad extension in wave number space.
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