Nonhydrostatic and nonlinear contributions to the energy flux budget in nonlinear internal waves

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 32, Issue 15, 2005, Pages

  Venayagamoorthy, S K ^a   Fringer, O B ^a  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HYDROSTATIC PRESSURE; KINETIC ENERGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; POTENTIAL ENERGY; VISCOSITY; WATER WAVES;

BAROCLINIC PRESSURE; BOUSSINESQ APPROXIMATION; ENERGY FLUX; NONLINEAR INTERNAL WAVES;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

ENERGY FLUX; INTERNAL WAVE; WAVE FIELD;

EID: 25844494959     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005GL023432     Document Type: Article

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