Estimating internal wave energy fluxes in the ocean

Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology

Volumn 22, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 1551-1570

  Nash, Jonathan D ^a   Alford, Matthew H ^b   Kunze, Eric ^c  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; MOORING; OCEANOGRAPHY; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; STATISTICAL METHODS; WAVE TRANSMISSION;

INTERNAL WAVE ENERGY FLUX; WAVE DISSIPATION; WAVE GENERATION;

WATER WAVES;

ENERGY DISSIPATION; ENERGY FLUX; INTERNAL WAVE; MEASUREMENT METHOD;

EID: 27744476067     PISSN: 07390572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JTECH1784.1     Document Type: Article

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