An abyssal recipe

Ocean Modelling

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 298-309

  Polzin, Kurt L ^a  

^a WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

Benthic boundary layers; Fine structure and microstructure in oceanography; Internal and inertial waves; Ocean bottom processes; Seafloor morphology, geology, and geophysics; Turbulence, diffusion, and mixing processes in oceanography; Upwelling and convergences

Indexed keywords

BENTHIC BOUNDARY LAYERS; FINE STRUCTURE AND MICROSTRUCTURE IN OCEANOGRAPHY; INTERNAL AND INERTIAL WAVES; OCEAN BOTTOM PROCESSES; SEAFLOOR MORPHOLOGY, GEOLOGY, AND GEOPHYSICS; UPWELLING AND CONVERGENCES;

BOUNDARY LAYERS; GEOPHYSICS; MICROSTRUCTURE; MORPHOLOGY; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; TURBULENCE;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

ABYSSAL CIRCULATION; BOUNDARY LAYER; DIFFUSION; DISSIPATION; ENERGY BALANCE; INTERNAL TIDE; INTERNAL WAVE; MIXING; NUMERICAL MODEL; OCEAN BASIN; SEAFLOOR; TURBULENCE; UPWELLING; WAVE BREAKING; WAVE FIELD;

EID: 70349290497     PISSN: 14635003     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ocemod.2009.07.006     Document Type: Article

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