Baroclinic energy flux at the Hawaiian Ridge: Observations from the R/P FLIP

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1104-1122

  Rainville, Luc ^a,b   Pinkel, Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^b WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTRUMENTS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; TIDES; WATER WAVES;

BAROCLINIC ENERGY FLUX; CROSS SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; INTERNAL WAVES; RESEARCH PLATFORM FLOATING INSTRUMENT PLATFORM (FLIP);

OCEANOGRAPHY;

ENERGY FLUX; ESTIMATION METHOD; INTERNAL TIDE; NEARSHORE DYNAMICS;

EID: 33747048969     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JPO2882.1     Document Type: Article

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