The effects of large and small-scale topography upon internal waves and implications for tidally induced mixing in sill regions

Ocean Dynamics

Volumn 60, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 1-25

  Xing, Jiuxing ^a   Davies, Alan M ^a  

^a NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Internal tides; Internal waves; Mixing; Sill

Indexed keywords

BUOYANCY FREQUENCY; CRITICAL PARAMETER; CRITICAL RICHARDSON NUMBER; CROSS-SECTIONAL MODELS; ENHANCED MIXING; FREE SURFACES; INTERNAL TIDES; INTERNAL WAVES; MEAN VALUES; NEW RESULTS; NON-LINEAR RESPONSE; NONHYDROSTATIC MODEL; RICHARDSON NUMBER; TIME-SCALES; TOTAL DEPTHS; WATER MIXING;

BUOYANCY; MIXED CONVECTION; SURFACE TOPOGRAPHY; TIDES; TIME SERIES; TOPOGRAPHY; TWO DIMENSIONAL;

MIXING;

BUOYANCY FORCING; CRITICAL ANALYSIS; CROSS SECTION; FROUDE NUMBER; HYDROSTATICS; INTERNAL TIDE; INTERNAL WAVE; LEE WAVE; NONLINEARITY; PARAMETERIZATION; RICHARDSON NUMBER; RIPPLE; SEA SURFACE TOPOGRAPHY; SILL; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECT; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; WAVE GENERATION;

LOCH ETIVE; SCOTLAND; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 77649235252     PISSN: 16167341     EISSN: 16167228     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10236-009-0234-1     Document Type: Article

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