Internal waves and temperature fronts on slopes

Annales Geophysicae

Volumn 17, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 1227-1234

  Thorpe, S A ^a   Lemmin, U ^b  

^a NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Oceanography: general (benthic boundary layers; limnology); Oceanography: physical (internal and inertial waves)

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033466299     PISSN: 09927689     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00585-999-1227-6     Document Type: Article

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