Stratification and mixing on sloping boundaries

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 35, Issue 14, 2008, Pages

  Lorke, Andreas ^a   Umlauf, L ^b   Mohrholz, V ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

^b LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR BALTIC SEA RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMICS; BOUNDARY LAYERS; COOLING; DRAG REDUCTION; HYDRODYNAMICS; METEOROLOGY; OCEAN CURRENTS; OFFSHORE OIL WELL PRODUCTION; TURBULENCE;

DENSITY GRADIENTS; DENSITY STRATIFICATION; DIRECT MEASUREMENTS; DOWNSLOPE; INTERNAL WAVES; ORDER-OF MAGNITUDES; OVERALL EFFICIENCY; PERIODIC HEATING; SLOPE FLOW; TURBULENT DIFFUSIVITIES; TURBULENT MIXING; UNSTABLE STRATIFICATION; VERTICAL TRANSPORTS;

MIXING;

BASIN; BOUNDARY LAYER; INTERNAL WAVE; OCEANIC CURRENT; STRATIFICATION; TURBULENT MIXING; VERTICAL MIXING;

EID: 53749092317     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008GL034607     Document Type: Article

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