Breaking of unsteady lee waves generated by diurnal tides

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2010, Pages

  Nakamura, T ^a   Isoda, Y ^a   Mitsudera, H ^a   Takagi, S ^a   Nagasawa, M ^b  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTARCTIC BOTTOM WATER; DIAPYCNAL MIXING; DIURNAL TIDES; GLOBAL ESTIMATE; GLOBAL MAP; HIGHER RESOLUTION; LEE WAVES; NON-LINEARITY; NORTH PACIFIC; TIDAL CURRENTS; WEDDELL SEA; ANTARCTIC OCEAN; BIDECADAL OSCILLATION; INTERMEDIATE LAYERS; INTERNAL WAVES; LARGE AMPLITUDE; MIXING PROCESS; NORTH PACIFIC OCEAN;

HYDRAULIC JUMP; OCEAN CURRENTS; TIDES; MIXING;

MIXING; OCEANOGRAPHY;

DIURNAL VARIATION; HYDRAULICS; LEE WAVE; MIXING; NONLINEAR WAVE; OSCILLATION; TIDAL CURRENT; VENTILATION;

ROSS SEA; SOUTHERN OCEAN; WEDDELL SEA;

EID: 77649108053     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009GL041456     Document Type: Article

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