Response of the deep ocean internal wave field to traveling midlatitude storms as observed in long-term current measurements

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 104, Issue C5, 1999, Pages 10981-10989

  Niwa, Yoshihiro ^a   Hibiya, Toshiyuki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; DEEP WATER; INTERNAL WAVE; STORM; WAVE FIELD;

(NORTHWEST); PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 0033562276     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999jc900046     Document Type: Article

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