Energy spectra of the ocean's internal wave field: Theory and observations

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 92, Issue 12, 2004, Pages

  Lvov, Yuri V ^a   Polzin, Kurt L ^b   Tabak, Esteban G ^c  

^a Research Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute   (United States)

^b WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^c NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; CONFORMAL MAPPING; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; HAMILTONIANS; INTEGRATION; KINETIC THEORY; PROBLEM SOLVING; RESONANCE; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL METHODS; THEOREM PROVING; THERMODYNAMICS; TURBULENCE;

CORIOLIS EFFECTS; INTERNAL WAVE FIELDS; KINETIC EQUATIONS; WAVE TURBULENCE THEORY;

WATER WAVES;

EID: 2342451130     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.92.128501     Document Type: Article

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