The generation of internal waves by tidal flow over continental shelf/slope topography

Environmental Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 8, Issue 5-6, 2008, Pages 511-526

  Lim, K ^a   Ivey, G N ^a   Nokes, Roger I ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Continental shelf; Flow over topography; Generation; Internal bolus; Internal Froude number; Internal waves; Laboratory experiment; Stratifie fluid

Indexed keywords

FROUDE NUMBER; TIDES; TOPOGRAPHY; WATER WAVES;

BAROTROPIC TIDE; CONFERENCE PROCEEDING; CONTINENTAL SHELF; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FROUDE NUMBER; INTERNAL WAVE; STRATIFIED FLUID; TOPOGRAPHY; WAVE GENERATION;

EID: 57049120101     PISSN: 15677419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10652-008-9085-4     Document Type: Conference Paper

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