Simulations of the ocean response to a hurricane: Nonlinear processes

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 39, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 2618-2634

  Zedler, Sarah E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AT RESONANCE; BUOYANCY FORCING; DEEP OCEAN; DOMINANT FREQUENCY; EASTERN PACIFIC; GENERATION MECHANISM; HIGH LATITUDES; HIGHER HARMONICS; HIGHER LATITUDES; HORIZONTAL VELOCITY; INERTIAL FREQUENCY; INTERNAL WAVES; LINEAR MODES; LINEAR MOMENTA; MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY; MAXIMUM VARIANCE; MIDLATITUDES; MODELING STUDIES; MOMENTUM EQUATION; NONLINEAR PROCESS; OCEAN GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS; OCEAN RESPONSE; OPEN OCEAN; PARTICLE PATHS; POSITIVE DEFINITE; SHEAR INSTABILITY; STORM SPEED; STORM TRACK; SURFACE WIND STRESS; TRACK DIRECTION; TROPICAL CYCLONE; VELOCITY FIELD; VERTICAL ADVECTION; VERTICAL MIXING; VERTICAL VELOCITY; WATER COLUMNS;

ADVECTION; ELECTRON ENERGY LOSS SPECTROSCOPY; HURRICANES; KINETIC ENERGY; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; OCEANOGRAPHY; VELOCITY; WAKES;

STORMS;

BUOYANCY FORCING; CORIOLIS FORCE; HURRICANE; INTERNAL WAVE; KINETIC ENERGY; STORM TRACK; STRATIFICATION; TURBULENT MIXING; VERTICAL MIXING; WAKE; WATER DEPTH; WAVE BREAKING; WAVE GENERATION; WAVE MODELING; WAVE PROPAGATION; WIND DIRECTION; WIND STRESS;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; CARIBBEAN SEA; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (EAST);

EID: 74049098677     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009JPO4062.1     Document Type: Article

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