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

[Olivier Pauluis]

Thanks!

Just when I started to think that the paper had been authored by  
Jackson's infamous brother, Red...

Olivier

On Feb 10, 2011, at 12:29 AM, Sung Yong Kim wrote:

> Hi Rob:
>
> Please find the attached pdf file.
>
> Best,
> Sung Yong Kim
>
> At 09:15 PM 2/9/2011, Rob Scott wrote:
>> 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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