A novel technique for measuring the rate of turbulent dissipation in the marine environment

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 33, Issue 21, 2006, Pages

  Wiles, Philip J ^a   Rippeth, Tom P ^a   Simpson, John H ^a   Hendricks, Peter J ^b  

^a BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b NAVAL UNDERSEA WARFARE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

KINETIC ENERGY; MARINE APPLICATIONS; METEOROLOGICAL RADAR; METEOROLOGY; REYNOLDS EQUATION; TURBULENT FLOW;

ABSOLUTE VALUES; ACOUSTIC DOPPLER CURRENT PROFILER (ADCP); FREEFALL PROFILERS; RADAR METEOROLOGY;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

ENERGY DISSIPATION; KINETIC ENERGY; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MEASUREMENT METHOD; METEOROLOGY; REYNOLDS NUMBER; TURBULENT FLOW;

EID: 34248506537     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006GL027050     Document Type: Article

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