The surface expression of semidiurnal internal tides near a strong source at Hawaii. Part I: Observations and numerical predictions

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1155-1179

  Chavanne, C ^a   Flament, P ^a   Carter, G ^a   Merrifield, M ^a   Luther, D ^a   Zaron, E ^b   Gurgel, K W ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b Portland State University   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Currents; Numerical analysis modeling; Tides

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC DOPPLER CURRENT PROFILER; ANALYTICAL MODEL; ASTRONOMICAL FORCING; BACKGROUND CURRENT; BAROTROPIC; BAROTROPIC TIDES; CURRENTS; DOPPLER CURRENT METERS; ENERGY PATTERNS; INTERNAL TIDE GENERATION; INTERNAL TIDES; INTERNAL WAVES; MODEL PREDICTION; NEAR-FIELD; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS/MODELING; NUMERICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL PREDICTIONS; OCEAN MIXING; PHASE LOCKED; PRIMITIVE EQUATIONS; SEASONAL VARIABILITY; SPATIAL PATTERNS; SURFACE CURRENT; SURFACE EXPRESSION; SURFACE KINETICS; SURFACE REFLECTIONS; TEMPORAL VARIABILITY; TIME-SCALES;

DOPPLER EFFECT; ELECTRON ENERGY LOSS SPECTROSCOPY; FORECASTING; KINETIC ENERGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL METHODS;

TIDES;

ACOUSTIC DOPPLER CURRENT PROFILER; AMPLITUDE; BAROTROPIC TIDE; CONSTITUTIVE EQUATION; INTERNAL TIDE; KINETIC ENERGY; NUMERICAL MODEL; PREDICTION; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEMIDIURNAL TIDE; TIDAL CURRENT;

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

EID: 77955645099     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2010JPO4222.1     Document Type: Article

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