Long-range propagation of the semidiurnal internal tide from the Hawaiian Ridge

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 713-736

  Zhao, Zhongxiang ^a   Alford, Matthew H ^b   Mackinnon, Jennifer A ^c   Pinkel, Rob ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALTIMETER DATA; ALTIMETRIC DATA; COHERENT MODES; ENERGY FLUXES; INTERFERENCE PATTERNS; INTERNAL TIDES; LONG-RANGE PROPAGATION; MESOSCALE; MULTI-MODAL; OCEAN ENVIRONMENT; OCEAN TOPOGRAPHY EXPERIMENTS; PHASE DIFFERENCE; PLANE WAVE; SEA-SURFACE HEIGHT ANOMALIES; SIMPLE MODEL; SPATIAL COVERAGE; SURFACE MANIFESTATIONS; THEORETICAL VALUES; VERTICAL RESOLUTION;

DATA FLOW ANALYSIS; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; MOORING; TIDES;

GEODETIC SATELLITES;

ALTIMETRY; DATA PROCESSING; ENERGY FLUX; INTERNAL TIDE; LONG RANGE TRANSPORT; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; SATELLITE DATA; SEA SURFACE HEIGHT; SEMIDIURNAL TIDE; TOPEX-POSEIDON;

FRENCH FRIGATE SHOALS; HAWAIIAN ISLANDS; HAWAIIAN RIDGE; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 77953239344     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009JPO4207.1     Document Type: Article

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