Organization of stratification, turbulence, and veering in bottom Ekman layers

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 112, Issue 5, 2007, Pages

  Perlin, A ^a   Moum, J N ^a   Klymak, J M ^a,b   Levine, M D ^a   Boyd, T ^a   Kosro, P M ^a  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYERS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OCEANOGRAPHY; PARAMETERIZATION; TURBULENCE; TURBULENT FLOW; VISCOSITY;

BENTHIC BOUNDARY LAYER; EKMAN LAYER; MIXED LAYER; PARAMETERIZATION; PYCNOCLINE; STRATIFICATION; TURBULENCE; TURBULENT BOUNDARY LAYER; UPWELLING; VISCOSITY;

OREGON SHELF; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 34548298696     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004JC002641     Document Type: Article

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