Internal wave induced dispersion and mixing on a sloping boundary

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 2009, Pages

  Inall, Mark E ^a  

^a SCOTTISH MARINE INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAROCLINIC FLOWS; BOTTOM BOUNDARY LAYER (BBL); DIFFUSIVITIES; FLUORESCENT DYES; GRAVITATIONAL COLLAPSE; INTERNAL WAVES; IRREGULAR BOUNDARY; ISOPYCNAL SURFACES; NON-LINEAR; SLOPE ANGLES; STRATIFIED WATERS; THIN BOUNDARY LAYERS; VERTICAL SEPARATION; WAVE NUMBERS;

BOUNDARY LAYERS; OCEAN HABITATS;

AERODYNAMICS;

BENTHIC BOUNDARY LAYER; DIFFUSIVITY; DISPERSION; DYE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; INTERNAL WAVE; ISOPYCNAL LAYER; SLOPE ANGLE; TRACER; WATER COLUMN;

EID: 65649121531     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008GL036849     Document Type: Article

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