Influence of coastal effects, bottom topography, stratification, wind period, and mixing upon the propagation of internal waves and the profile of wind-induced currents

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 108, Issue 2, 2003, Pages

  Xing, Juixing ^a   Davies, Alan M ^a  

^a Centre for Coastal and Marine Sciences   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bottom topography; Coastal processes; Internal waves; Mixing; Turbulence energy; Wind period

Indexed keywords

BOTTOM TOPOGRAPHY; COASTAL WATER; INTERNAL WAVE; NUMERICAL MODEL; STRATIFICATION; VERTICAL MIXING; WAVE GENERATION; WIND-DRIVEN CURRENT;

EID: 0038008689     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2002jc001377     Document Type: Article

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