Laboratory generation of internal waves from sinusoidal topography

Deep-Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography

Volumn 53, Issue 1-2, 2006, Pages 96-115

  Aguilar, D A ^a   Sutherland, B R ^a   Muraki, D J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Abyssal ocean mixing; Internal gravity waves; Laboratory experiments; Long's model; Topographic generation

Indexed keywords

GRAVITY WAVES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MIXING; OCEANOGRAPHY; SURFACE TOPOGRAPHY; TURBULENCE;

ABYSSAL OCEAN MIXING; INTERNAL GRAVITY WAVES; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; TOPOGRAPHIC GENERATION;

WATER WAVES;

INTERNAL WAVE; LABORATORY METHOD;

EID: 33644786777     PISSN: 09670645     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dsr2.2005.09.015     Document Type: Conference Paper

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