Mixing and stratification in lakes of varying horizontal length scales: Scaling arguments and energy partitioning

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 54, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 2003-2017

  Rueda, Francisco ^a   Schladow, Geoffrey ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^b University of California   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENERGY FLUX; INTERNAL WAVE; KINETIC ENERGY; LAKE ECOSYSTEM; MIXING; SIMULATION; STRATIFICATION; WIND FORCING;

CALIFORNIA; NORTH AMERICA; SALTON SEA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 70349956448     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.2009.54.6.2003     Document Type: Article

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