Interaction of internal waves with a topographic sill in a two-layered fluid

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 5-20

  Wessels, Frank ^a   Hutter, Kolumban ^a  

^a Technological Institute   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUIDS; INTERNAL WAVES; SILLS; TOPOGRAPHY; TWO LAYER; WAVE INTERACTION;

BOTTOM TOPOGRAPHY EFFECTS; DEGREE OF BLOCKING; INTERNAL WAVES; TWO-LAYERED FLUID;

EID: 0029656645     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0485(1996)026<0005:IOIWWA>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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