Internal tide generation at the continental shelf modeled using a modal decomposition: Two-dimensional results

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 428-451

  Griffiths, Stephen D ^a,b   Grimshaw, R H J ^a  

^a LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; FLOW OF WATER; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; TOPOGRAPHY;

FLUID MOTION; INTERNAL TIDE; MODAL DECOMPOSITION; STRATIFIED FLOW; TIDE GENERATION;

TIDES;

BAROTROPIC TIDE; CONTINENTAL SHELF; CONTINENTAL SLOPE; INTERNAL TIDE; NUMERICAL MODEL;

EID: 34247467615     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JPO3068.1     Document Type: Article

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