Overturning and dissipation caused by baroclinic tidal flow near the sill of a fjord basin

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 39, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 2156-2174

  Arneborg, Lars ^a   Liljebladh, Bengt ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAROCLINIC; BOTTOM BOUNDARY LAYER; BOTTOM LAYERS; DIAPYCNAL MIXING; INTERNAL TIDES; LAYER FLOW; MIXING EFFICIENCY; SUPER-CRITICAL; TIDAL FLOW; TRANSITIONAL FLOW;

BOUNDARY LAYERS; MIXING; REYNOLDS NUMBER; TIDES; TIME SERIES; TRANSITION FLOW;

JETS;

BAROCLINIC MOTION; BOUNDARY LAYER; DISSIPATION; FJORD; INTERNAL TIDE; JET; MIXING; OVERTURN; REYNOLDS NUMBER;

GULLMARSFJORDEN; SWEDEN; VASTRA GOTALAND;

EID: 73949159455     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009JPO4037.1     Document Type: Article

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