Stalling of near-inertial waves in a cyclone

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 35, Issue 12, 2008, Pages

  Oey, L Y ^a   Inoue, M ^b   Lai, R ^c   Lin, X H ^a   Welsh, S E ^b   Rouse, Jr ^b  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MINERALS MANAGEMENT SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA ASSIMILATION; HURRICANE - KATRINA; INERTIAL ENERGY; LOOP CURRENT; NUMERICAL SIMULATIONS; NEAR-INERTIAL WAVES;

AMPLIFICATION;

AMPLIFICATION; DATA ASSIMILATION; EDDY; HURRICANE KATRINA 2005; NUMERICAL MODEL; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; TROPICAL CYCLONE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; GULF OF MEXICO; LOOP CURRENT;

EID: 50849102016     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008GL034273     Document Type: Article

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