Shear at the critical diurnal latitude

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 34, Issue 6, 2007, Pages

  van Haren, Hans ^a  

^a ROYAL NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SEA RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOPPLER RADAR; GRAVITY WAVES; KINETIC ENERGY; RESONANCE; SHEAR WAVES; THERMAL STRATIFICATION;

ACOUSTIC DOPPLER CURRENT PROFILER; DEEP-OCEAN MIXING; DETERMINISTIC TIDAL FREQUENCIES; EARTH'S ROTATIONAL VECTOR;

TIDES;

ACOUSTIC DOPPLER CURRENT PROFILER; GRAVITY WAVE; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; KINETIC ENERGY; LATITUDE; SEMIDIURNAL TIDE; SHEAR;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; CANARY BASIN;

EID: 34249944331     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006GL028716     Document Type: Article

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