Internal waves across the Pacific

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 34, Issue 24, 2007, Pages

  Alford, M H ^a,b   MacKinnon, J A ^c   Zhao, Zhongxiang ^a   Pinkel, Rob ^c   Klymak, Jody ^d   Peacock, Thomas ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^e Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLOW VELOCITY; OCEAN CURRENTS; SHEAR DEFORMATION; TIDES; WIND EFFECTS;

DIAPYCNAL DIFFUSIVITY; PARAMETRIC SUBHARMONIC INSTABILITY; RICHARDSON NUMBER;

WATER WAVES;

ENERGY FLUX; INTERNAL TIDE; INTERNAL WAVE; RICHARDSON NUMBER; WAVE PROPAGATION; WAVELENGTH;

HAWAIIAN RIDGE; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 39549107587     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007GL031566     Document Type: Article

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