Drift and mixing under the ocean surface: A coherent one-dimensional description with application to unstratified conditions

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 111, Issue 3, 2006, Pages

  Rascle, Nicolas ^a   Ardhuin, Fabrice ^a   Terray, Eugene A ^b  

^a Section de Géodésie Géophysique   (France)

^b WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; OCEANOGRAPHY; SURFACE WATERS; WATER WAVES; WIND;

BREAKING WAVE; LANGMUIR CIRCULATION; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; TURBULENCE; WIND VELOCITY;

EID: 33646492449     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005JC003004     Document Type: Article

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