Estimation of diffusive transport of turbulent kinetic energy from acoustic Doppler current profiler data

Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 927-935

  Stacey, Mark T ^a  

^a Berkeley   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFUSION; DOPPLER EFFECT; KINETIC ENERGY; REYNOLDS NUMBER;

TURBULENT MIXING;

TURBULENCE;

ACOUSTIC DOPPLER CURRENT PROFILER; DIFFUSION; ERROR ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION METHOD; MASS TRANSPORT; OCEAN TIDE; REMOTE SENSING;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0037594771     PISSN: 07390572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0426(2003)020<0927:EODTOT>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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