Wave-turbulence interaction and its induced mixing in the upper ocean

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 115, Issue 4, 2010, Pages

  Huang, Chuan Jiang ^a   Qiao, Fangli ^a  

^a FIRST INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DECAY (ORGANIC); ELECTRON ENERGY LOSS SPECTROSCOPY; ENERGY DISSIPATION; KINETIC ENERGY; MIXING; OCEAN CURRENTS; SURFACE WAVES; TURBULENCE; WATER WAVES;

DECAY TIME; FIELD OBSERVATIONS; FRICTION VELOCITY; INVERSE PROPORTIONS; MEAN CURRENTS; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; PHASE SPEED; SEA SURFACES; SIGNIFICANT MECHANISM; TURBULENCE CHARACTERISTICS; TURBULENCE CLOSURES; TURBULENCE FIELDS; TURBULENCE KINETIC ENERGY; UPPER OCEAN; VERTICAL MIXING; WAVE DECAY; WAVE NUMBERS; WAVE PARAMETERS; WAVE STEEPNESS; WAVE-TURBULENCE INTERACTION;

WAVE ENERGY CONVERSION;

ENERGY DISSIPATION; KINETIC ENERGY; SEA SURFACE; SURFACE WAVE; TURBULENT MIXING; UPPER OCEAN; VERTICAL MIXING; WAVE ACTION;

EID: 77953599885     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009JC005853     Document Type: Article

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