Influence of multiple sills upon internal wave generation and the implications for mixing

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 36, Issue 13, 2009, Pages

  Xing, Jiuxing ^a   Davies, Alan M ^a  

^a NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAROTROPIC TIDES; ENHANCED MIXING; INTERNAL TIDES; INTERNAL WAVES; LEE WAVES; NONHYDROSTATIC MODEL; RICHARDSON NUMBER; SHORT WAVES; WAVE SPECTRA;

TIDES;

MIXING;

INTERNAL WAVE; MIXING; SILL; WAVE GENERATION;

EID: 70349233959     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009GL038181     Document Type: Article

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