Intermittency of near-bottom turbulence in tidal flow on a shallow shelf

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 115, Issue 5, 2010, Pages

  Lozovatsky, I ^a,b   Roget, E ^c   Planella, J ^c   Fernando, H J S ^a   Liu, Zhiyu ^d  

^a Arizona State University   (United States)

^b CATALAN INSTITUTE FOR WATER RESEARCH ICRA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GIRONA   (Spain)

^d XIAMEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; REYNOLDS NUMBER; TURBULENT FLOW;

ACOUSTIC DOPPLER VELOCIMETER; DECREASING FUNCTIONS; EAST CHINA SEA; HIGH REYNOLDS NUMBER; HIGH REYNOLDS NUMBER FLOWS; HIGHER-ORDER STRUCTURE; INTERMITTENCY; LEVY MODEL; LOG-NORMAL; MEAN VALUES; MULTI FRACTALS; SCALING EXPONENT; SEA FLOOR; SECOND ORDERS; STRATIFIED TURBULENCE; STRUCTURE FUNCTIONS; THIRD-ORDER; TIDAL CYCLE; TIDAL FLOW; TURBULENCE INTERMITTENCY; TURBULENT BOUNDARY LAYERS; TURBULENT REGIME; VERTICAL VELOCITY;

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS;

ACOUSTIC DOPPLER CURRENT PROFILER; ADVECTION; CONTINENTAL SHELF; FLOW PATTERN; FLOW VELOCITY; PYCNOCLINE; REYNOLDS NUMBER; TIDAL CYCLE; TURBULENCE; TURBULENT BOUNDARY LAYER;

EAST CHINA SEA; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 77953587432     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009JC005325     Document Type: Article

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