[AO announcement] does this paper exist? Herring, 1980, Statistical theory of quasi-geostrophic, turbulence

Rob Scott robert.scott at univ-brest.fr
Wed Feb 9 21:15:35 PST 2011


I've found this citation:

J Herring 1980,  "Statistical theory of quasi-geostrophic turbulence" 
JAS, vol. 37, pp. 969--977

but I can't find the article and I'm starting to suspect it doesn't 
exist yet.

Usually when this happens there's a trivial mistake in the page range, 
or the date is off by a year or two. But that doesn't seem to be the 
case here.

That page range corresponds to another article by Kunkel, K. E., E. W. 
Eloranta, J. A. Weinman, 1980. Yet the mistaken Herring article has 37 
citations on Web of Science! Despite searching for all the articles 
written by JR Herring on Web of Science, (as of Jan 13, 2011) I can't 
find the proper citation. I also looked in Jack Herring's own article, 
assuming he knew the proper citation to his own work! He's only cited 
the mysterious article twice; first in his lecture notes (Herring, 1985) 
and then in a little known paper in Meterology and Atmospheric Physics 
(Herring, 1988).

If you've seen this article, please send me a copy!
Rob Scott



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