On the importance of weak steady shear in the refraction of short internal waves

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 26, Issue 18, 1999, Pages 2877-2880

  Buckley, Greg ^a   Broutman, Dave ^a,b,c   Rottman, James W ^d   Eckermann, Stephen ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b Computational Physics Inc ^*  (United States)

^c NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

REFRACTION; WAVE PROPAGATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OCEAN CURRENTS;

CUMULATIVE EFFECTS; INTERNAL WAVES; LARGE AMPLITUDE; SHORT WAVE PROPAGATION; STEADY CURRENT; STEADY SHEAR; TIME-SCALES; WAVE NUMBERS;

SHEAR FLOW; WATER WAVES;

OCEANIC INTERNAL WAVES;

INTERNAL WAVE; OCEANIC CONVECTION;

EID: 0033568909     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999GL900483     Document Type: Article

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