Internal tide scattering at the Line Islands Ridge

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 108, Issue 11, 2003, Pages

  Johnston, T M Shaun ^a   Merrifield, Mark A ^a   Holloway, Peter E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Internal tides; Mixing; Topographic scattering

Indexed keywords

DIFFUSION; ENERGY FLUX; INTERNAL TIDE; NUMERICAL MODEL; SCATTERING; TURBULENCE;

HAWAIIAN ISLANDS; PACIFIC ISLANDS; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 1542376791     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2003jc001844     Document Type: Article

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