Evidence for nonlinear interaction between internal waves of inertial and semidiurnal frequency

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 25, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 1205-1208

  Mihaly, Steven F ^a,d   Thomson, Richard E ^b,d   Rabinovich, Alexander B ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b INSTITUTE OF OCEAN SCIENCES   (Canada)

^c SHIRSHOV INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

^d IOS   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OCEAN CURRENTS; OSCILLATIONS; WATER WAVES; WAVE TRANSMISSION; GEOPHYSICS;

INERTIAL FREQUENCY; NONLINEAR INTERNAL WAVE INTERACTIONS; SEMIDIURNAL FREQUENCY; ENERGY EXCHANGES; FREQUENCY OSCILLATIONS; INERTIAL ENERGY; INTERNAL WAVES; NONLINEAR INTERACTIONS; PROPAGATING WAVES; SPECTRAL PROPERTIES; SUM FREQUENCY;

OCEANOGRAPHY; EARTH SCIENCES;

MIXING; OSCILLATION; WAVE INTERACTION;

PACIFIC;

EID: 0032522312     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/98GL00722     Document Type: Article

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