Effects of equatorial undercurrent shear on upper-ocean mixing and internal waves

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 1041-1057

  Wang, Dailin ^a   Müller, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYERS; GRAVITY WAVES; HEAT CONVECTION; KINETIC ENERGY; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION; TURBULENCE;

EQUATORIAL UNDERCURRENT;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

INTERNAL WAVE; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; UNDERCURRENT; VERTICAL MIXING;

EID: 0036505873     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0485(2002)032<1041:EOEUSO>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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