Observations of energetic high-wavenumber internal waves in the Kuroshio

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 34, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 1495-1505

  Rainville, Luc ^a   Pinkel, Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENERGY DISSIPATION; SONAR; WATER WAVES; WAVE PROPAGATION;

INTERNAL WAVES; SHEAR LAYERS; WAVENUMBER;

UNDERWATER ACOUSTICS;

GEOSTROPHIC FLOW; INTERNAL WAVE; OCEANIC CURRENT; SHELF BREAK;

KUROSHIO CURRENT; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 4043130791     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0485(2004)034<1495:OOEHIW>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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