Laboratory modelling experiments on the flow generated by the tidal motion of a stratified ocean over a continental shelf

Continental Shelf Research

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 193-212

  Guo, Yakun ^a   Davies, Peter A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Eddies; Internal tides; Internal waves; Mixing; Shelf slope; Turbulence

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL SHELF; INTERNAL TIDE; INTERNAL WAVE; MIXING; MODELING; STRATIFICATION; TURBULENCE;

EID: 0037248251     PISSN: 02784343     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0278-4343(02)00115-2     Document Type: Article

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