Dynamic enthalpy, conservative temperature, and the seawater Boussinesq approximation

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 394-400

  Young, William R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

A-THERMAL; BERNOULLI EQUATIONS; BINARY SOLUTIONS; BOUSSINESQ; BOUSSINESQ APPROXIMATIONS; BOUSSINESQ SYSTEM; BUOYANCY FORCES; DYNAMIC PRESSURES; ENERGY CONSERVATION LAW; GEOPOTENTIAL HEIGHT; GEOPOTENTIALS; MASS CONSERVATION EQUATIONS; SPECIFIC ENTHALPY;

BUOYANCY; ELECTRON ENERGY LOSS SPECTROSCOPY; ENERGY CONSERVATION; ENTHALPY; EQUATIONS OF STATE; FLUID DYNAMICS; KINETIC ENERGY; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; SEAWATER;

EQUATIONS OF MOTION;

BOUSSINESQ EQUATION; BUOYANCY FORCING; ENTHALPY; EQUATION OF STATE; KINETIC ENERGY; SALINITY; SEAWATER; SOLUTION; WATER TEMPERATURE;

EID: 77953334754     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009JPO4294.1     Document Type: Article

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