Global energy dissipation rate of deep-ocean low-frequency flows by quadratic bottom boundary layer drag: Computations from current-meter data

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 35, Issue 9, 2008, Pages

  Sen, Ayon ^a,b   Scott, Robert B ^a   Arbic, Brian K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b Westwood High School   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMICS; BOUNDARY LAYERS; DENSITY MEASUREMENT (SPECIFIC GRAVITY); DRAG; DRAG REDUCTION; ELECTRON ENERGY LOSS SPECTROSCOPY; ENERGY DISSIPATION; ENERGY DISSIPATORS; ESTIMATION; HYDRODYNAMICS; MAPS; METEOROLOGY; METRIC SYSTEM; MOORING; OPTICAL PROJECTORS; QUADRATIC PROGRAMMING; WIND POWER;

BOTTOM BOUNDARY LAYER; CURRENT METERS; DEEP WATERS; GLOBAL ENERGY; GLOBAL MAPS; LOW FREQUENCIES; MESO-SCALE; OVERTURNING CIRCULATION; SATELLITE ALTIMETRY DATA; SPATIAL COVERAGE; SURFACE DATA; SURFACE FLOWS; SURFACE VELOCITIES; WORLD OCEAN;

OCEAN CURRENTS;

BENTHIC BOUNDARY LAYER; DRAG; ENERGY DISSIPATION; ESTIMATION METHOD; GEOSTROPHIC FLOW; MESOSCALE EDDY; NUMERICAL METHOD; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; OVERTURN; SATELLITE ALTIMETRY;

EID: 48549086069     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008GL033407     Document Type: Article

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