Baroclinic tidal generation in the Kauai Channel inferred from high-frequency radio Doppler current meters

Dynamics of Atmospheres and Oceans

Volumn 48, Issue 1-3, 2009, Pages 93-120

  Zaron, Edward D ^a   Chavanne, Cedric ^b   Egbert, Gary D ^c   Flament, Pierre ^b  

^a Portland State University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^c OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Data assimilation; Tidal conversion; Tidal modeling

Indexed keywords

BAROCLINIC; BAROTROPIC TIDES; CONVERSION RATES; DATA ASSIMILATION; DEEP OCEAN; DOPPLER CURRENT METERS; DOPPLER CURRENTS; HIGH FREQUENCY HF; INTERNAL TIDES; MASS CONSERVATION EQUATIONS; MASS EQUATION; MESOSCALE; MODEL DOMAINS; PRIMITIVE EQUATIONS; TIDAL CONVERSION; TIDAL CURRENTS; TIDAL ENERGY; TIDAL GENERATION; TIDAL MODELING;

DATA PROCESSING; OCEAN CURRENTS; PHOTOMASKS; TIDES;

TIDAL POWER;

AMPLITUDE; CONSTITUTIVE EQUATION; DATA ASSIMILATION; DOPPLER RADAR; ENERGY BUDGET; INTERNAL TIDE; NUMERICAL MODEL; TIDAL CHANNEL; TIDAL CURRENT; WAVE GENERATION;

HAWAII [UNITED STATES]; HAWAIIAN ISLANDS; KAUAI; NORTH AMERICA; PACIFIC ISLANDS; PACIFIC OCEAN; UNITED STATES;

EID: 68749101978     PISSN: 03770265     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dynatmoce.2009.03.002     Document Type: Article

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