Energy transfer within the small-scale oceanic internal wave spectrum

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 267-282

  Furue, Ryo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENERGY TRANSFER; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; WATER WAVES;

INTERNAL WAVE SPECTRUM;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

ENERGY FLOW; INTERNAL WAVE; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; WAVE SPECTRUM;

EID: 0141452233     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0485(2003)033<0267:ETWTSS>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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