Internal tide generation in the deep ocean

Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 39, Issue , 2007, Pages 57-87

  Garett, Chris ^a   Kunze, Eric ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Internal tides; Ocean mixing; Tidal dissipation

Indexed keywords

GRAVITY WAVES; OCEAN CURRENTS; WATER WAVES;

INTERNAL TIDES; OCEAN MIXING; TIDAL DISSIPATION;

TIDES;

GRAVITY WAVES; OCEAN CURRENTS; TIDES; WATER WAVES;

BAROTROPIC TIDE; BOTTOM TOPOGRAPHY; ENERGY FLUX; INTERNAL TIDE; INTERNAL WAVE; MIXING; TIDAL CURRENT;

EID: 33846829786     PISSN: 00664189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.fluid.39.050905.110227     Document Type: Article

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