Decay of semi-diurnal internal-tide beams due to subharmonic resonance

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 33, Issue 8, 2006, Pages

  Gerkema, Theo ^a   Staquet, Chantal ^b   Bouruet Aubertot, Pascale ^c  

^a ROYAL NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SEA RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^b LEGI   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PIERRE ET MARIE CURIE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HARMONIC ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; TIDES;

CONTINENTAL SHELF BREAK; INTERNAL-TIDE GENERATION; NONLINEAR EVOLUTION; SUBHARMONIC RESONANCE (SR);

OCEANOGRAPHY;

DIURNAL VARIATION; INTERNAL TIDE; LATITUDE; OCEAN WAVE; TIDAL CURRENT; WAVE PROPAGATION;

EID: 33745445463     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005GL025105     Document Type: Article

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