What is the "Near-inertial" band and why is it different from the rest of the internal wave spectrum?

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 962-971

  Garrett, C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MIXING; WATER WAVES; WAVE PROPAGATION;

WAVE SPECTRUM;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

INERTIA; INTERNAL WAVE; WAVE SPECTRUM;

EID: 0035303089     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0485(2001)031<0962:WITNIB>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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