Reduced mixing from the breaking of internal waves in equatorial waters

Nature

Volumn 422, Issue 6931, 2003, Pages 513-515

  Gregg, Michael C ^a   Sanford, Thomas B ^a   Winkel, David P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SALTS; THERMAL STRATIFICATION; WATER WAVES;

EQUATORIAL WATERS;

CONSERVATION;

EQUATORIAL DYNAMICS; INTERNAL WAVE; MIXING; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; WATER MASS;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; CLIMATE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); EQUATORIAL WATER; HEAT; LATITUDE; NUTRIENT; OBSERVATION; OCEAN ENVIRONMENT; OCEANOGRAPHY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALT TOLERANCE; SIMULATION; SURFACE PROPERTY; TURBULENT FLOW; WAVEFORM;

EID: 0037417295     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature01507     Document Type: Article

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