Details of stratification in a sloping bottom boundary layer of Great Meteor Seamount

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 32, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 1-4

  van Haren, Hans ^a  

^a ROYAL NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SEA RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYERS; SEDIMENTS; SUSPENSIONS (FLUIDS); TSUNAMIS; SUBMARINE GEOLOGY; TIDES;

BOTTOM BOUNDARY LAYER (BBL); INTERNAL TIDAL WAVES; SEDIMENT RESUSPENSION; STRATIFICATION;

OCEANOGRAPHY; BOUNDARY LAYERS;

BENTHIC BOUNDARY LAYER; STRATIFICATION; TURBULENT FLOW;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; GREAT METEOR SEAMOUNT; OCEANIC REGIONS; WORLD;

HOMOGENEOUS LAYERS; INTERIOR FLOW; INTERNAL TIDAL WAVES; RAPID VARIATION; SEDIMENT RE SUSPENSIONS; SLOPING BOTTOM; STRATIFIED LAYERS; TURBULENT BOTTOM BOUNDARY LAYERS;

EID: 21844451435     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004GL022298     Document Type: Article

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