Boundary layer turbulence and flow structure over a fringing coral reef

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 51, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1956-1968

  Reidenbach, Matthew A ^a,c   Monismith, Stephen G ^a   Koseff, Jeffrey R ^a   Yahel, Gitai ^b,d   Genin, Amatzia ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b The Interuniversity Institute for Marine Science Eilat   (Israel)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORAL REEF; DRAG COEFFICIENT; FLOW STRUCTURE; FRINGING REEF; TOPOGRAPHY; TURBULENCE; TURBULENT BOUNDARY LAYER; TURBULENT MIXING; VELOCITY;

GULF OF AQABA; INDIAN OCEAN; RED SEA [INDIAN OCEAN];

ANTHOZOA;

EID: 33749470075     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.2006.51.5.1956     Document Type: Article

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