Quasigeostrophic planetary waves in a two-layer ocean with one-dimensional periodic bottom topography

Geophysical and Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics

Volumn 102, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 119-137

  Kubokawa, Atsushi ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bottom topography; Planetary waves; Surface intensified mode; Topographic mode; Two layer ocean

Indexed keywords

ENGINEERING GEOLOGY; NUMERICAL METHODS; OCEAN CURRENTS; WAVES;

BOTTOM TOPOGRAPHY; DISPERSION DIAGRAMS; LATERAL SCALING; ONE-DIMENSIONAL; PLANETARY WAVES; PROPERTY (S); ROSSBY WAVES; STRATIFIED OCEAN; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECTS; TWO LAYERS; WAVE NUMBERS;

TOPOGRAPHY;

AMPLITUDE; BAROCLINIC MODE; BOTTOM TOPOGRAPHY; ONE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; PLANETARY WAVE; QUASI-GEOSTROPHIC FLOW; ROSSBY WAVE; WAVE PROPERTY;

EID: 46249118055     PISSN: 03091929     EISSN: 10290419     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03091920701614334     Document Type: Article

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