Near-inertial wave wake of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita over mesoscale oceanic eddies

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1320-1337

  Jaimes, Benjamin ^a   Shay, Lynn K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

Author keywords

Eddies; Hurricanes; Mesoscale processes; Oceanic; Waves

Indexed keywords

BUOYANCY FREQUENCY; CRITICAL LAYER; CYCLONIC CIRCULATION; DOWN-WELLING; EDDIES; GEOSTROPHIC ADJUSTMENT; GEOSTROPHIC FLOW; GULF OF MEXICO; KATRINA; MESOSCALE; MESOSCALE PROCESS; NEAR INERTIAL ENERGY; NEAR-INERTIAL WAVES; OBSERVATIONAL DATA; OCEAN FEATURE; OCEANIC; OCEANIC EDDIES; OCEANIC MIXED LAYERS; RAY-TRACING TECHNIQUE; RELATIVE VORTICITY; SHEAR INSTABILITY; THERMAL RESPONSE; TROPICAL CYCLONE; TURBULENCE CLOSURES; UPPER LAYER; VERTICAL MIXING; VERTICAL SHEAR;

COOLING; HURRICANES; OCEANOGRAPHY; STORMS; STREAM FLOW; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; WAKES;

DISPERSION (WAVES);

GEOSTROPHIC FLOW; HURRICANE KATRINA 2005; HURRICANE RITA 2005; INERTIA; KINETIC ENERGY; MESOSCALE EDDY; MIXED LAYER; STORM SURGE; THERMOCLINE; TURBULENCE; VERTICAL MIXING; WAKE; WAVE BREAKING; WAVE DISPERSION; WAVE ENERGY; WAVE PROPAGATION;

EID: 77955604600     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2010JPO4309.1     Document Type: Article

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