Diapycnal mixing in the Banda Sea: Results of the first microstructure measurements in the Indonesian throughflow

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 26, Issue 17, 1999, Pages 2741-2744

  Alford, Matthew H ^a,c   Gregg, Michael C ^a   Ilyas, Muhammed ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b AGENCY FOR THE ASSESSMENT AND APPLICATION OF TECHNOLOGY BPPT   (Indonesia)

^c Applied Physics Laboratory   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; GEOGRAPHICAL REGIONS; TIDES; ENERGY CONVERSION; ENERGY DISSIPATION; KINETIC ENERGY; KINETICS; MICROSTRUCTURE; MIXING; SURFACE WATERS; TIDAL POWER;

BANDA SEA; DIAPYCNAL MIXING; INDONESIAN THROUGHFLOW; MICROSTRUCTURE MEASUREMENTS; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; DIAPYCNAL DIFFUSIVITY; DISSIPATION RATES; POTENTIAL DENSITY; POTENTIAL TEMPERATURE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST);

SALINITY MEASUREMENT; OCEANOGRAPHY;

CURRENT; SPATIAL VARIATION; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

BANDA SEA;

BARUNA;

EID: 0033380554     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999GL002337     Document Type: Article

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