Estimating internal waves and diapycnal mixing from conventional mooring data in a lake

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 43, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 936-945

  Thorpe, S A ^a   Jiang, R ^b  

^a NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CURRENT; INTERNAL WAVE; LAKE; METHODOLOGY; MIXING; TEMPERATURE; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

EID: 0031715282     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.1998.43.5.0936     Document Type: Article

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