Abyssal recipes II: Energetics of tidal and wind mixing

Deep-Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers

Volumn 45, Issue 12, 1998, Pages 1977-2010

  Munk, Walter ^a   Wunsch, Carl ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABYSSAL CIRCULATION; DEEP WATER FORMATION; ENERGETICS; MIXING; TIDE; WIND;

EID: 0032420562     PISSN: 09670637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0967-0637(98)00070-3     Document Type: Article

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