Tidal and near-inertial peak variations around the diurnal critical latitude

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 32, Issue 23, 2005, Pages 1-5

  van Haren, Hans ^a  

^a ROYAL NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SEA RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GRAVITY WAVES; KINETIC ENERGY; MOORING; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; TIDES; WATER WAVES;

DIURNAL CRITICAL LATITUDE; NEAR INERTIAL PEAK VARIATIONS;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

DIURNAL VARIATION; OCEAN TIDE;

CELASTRINA LADON;

EID: 31544477675     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005GL024160     Document Type: Article

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