Processes influencing tidal mixing in the region of sills

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2006, Pages

  Xing, Jiuxing ^a   Davies, Alan M ^a  

^a NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; FLOODS; HYDRAULICS; HYDROLOGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; WATER WAVES;

BAROTROPIC TIDAL FLOW; FLOOD TIDE; HYDRAULIC TRANSITION; INTERNAL LEE WAVES; NON-HYDROSTATIC MODEL; SILL REGION; SMOOTH TOPOGRAPHY; TIDAL MIXING;

TIDES;

BAROTROPIC TIDE; MIXING;

EID: 33645642905     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005GL025226     Document Type: Article

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