Internal tide scattering at seamounts, ridges and islands

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 108, Issue 6, 2003, Pages

  Shaun Johnston, T M ^a   Merrifield, Mark A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

Internal tides; Mixing; Topographic scattering

Indexed keywords

INTERNAL TIDE; ISLAND; SEAMOUNT; SUBMARINE RIDGE; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECT; WAVE SCATTERING;

EID: 0141724852     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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