The surface expression of semidiurnal internal tides near a strong source at Hawaii. part II: Interactions with mesoscale currents

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1180-1200

  Chavanne, C ^a   Flament, P ^a   Luther, D ^a   Gurgel, K W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Currents; Tides

Indexed keywords

ASTRONOMICAL FORCING; BACKGROUND CURRENT; BUOYANCY FREQUENCY; CURRENTS; DOPPLER; DOPPLER SHIFTING; ENERGETIC SURFACE; ENERGY AMPLIFICATION; INTERNAL TIDES; INTERNAL WAVES; INTRINSIC FREQUENCY; MESOSCALE; PHASE LAGS; SCALE SEPARATION; SURFACE CURRENT; SURFACE EXPRESSION; TIME DELAYED; TOPOGRAPHIC SLOPE; VERTICAL SHEAR; VORTICITY WAVES;

AMPLIFICATION; BUOYANCY; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); ENERGY TRANSFER; LOCATION; STORMS; VORTICITY; WAVE ENERGY CONVERSION;

TIDES;

ACOUSTIC DOPPLER CURRENT PROFILER; BAROTROPIC TIDE; INTERNAL TIDE; NUMERICAL MODEL; OCEANIC CURRENT; SEMIDIURNAL TIDE;

HAWAII [UNITED STATES]; HAWAIIAN ISLANDS; KAUAI; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77955644303     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2010JPO4223.1     Document Type: Article

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