Wind-shear-generated high-frequency internal waves as precursors to mixing in a stratified lake

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 354-367

  Gómez Giraldo, Andrés ^a,b   Imberger, Jörg ^a   Antenucci, Jason P ^a   Yeates, Peter S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE COLOMBIA   (Colombia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GROWTH; INTERNAL WAVE; LAKE WATER; LIGHT; MIXING; PHYTOPLANKTON; WAVELENGTH; WIND SHEAR;

ASIA; EURASIA; ISRAEL; MIDDLE EAST; NORTHERN DISTRICT; SEA OF GALILEE;

EID: 38749115354     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.2008.53.1.0354     Document Type: Article

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