Breaking of progressive internal gravity waves: Convective instability and shear instability

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 40, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 2243-2263

  Liu, Wei ^a   Bretherton, Francis P ^a   Liu, Zhengyu ^a   Smith, Leslie ^a   Lu, Hao ^b   Rutland, Christopher J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b Wisconsin Electric Machines and Power Electronics Consortium   (United States)

Author keywords

Convective clouds; Instability; Shear structure flows

Indexed keywords

CONVECTIVE CLOUDS; CONVECTIVE INSTABILITIES; DENSITY GRADIENTS; DENSITY PERTURBATION; DIAPYCNAL MIXING; HORIZONTAL VORTICITY; INSTABILITY; INTERNAL GRAVITY WAVES; LINEAR WAVE THEORY; LOCAL GRADIENTS; LOCAL WAVE; LOWER FREQUENCIES; MODE HARMONICS; NON-LINEARITY; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; OCEANIC FLOW; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION (PDF); REALISTIC SIMULATION; RICHARDSON NUMBER; SHEAR INSTABILITY; SHEAR STRUCTURE/FLOWS; SUFFICIENT CONDITIONS; WAVE CREST; WAVE ENERGY; WAVE PHASE; WAVE-INDUCED FLOW; WAVEBREAKING;

CLOUDS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GRAVITATIONAL EFFECTS; GRAVITY WAVES; HYDRODYNAMICS; OCEAN HABITATS; OCEANOGRAPHY; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; STABILITY; WAVE ENERGY CONVERSION; WAVE PROPAGATION;

SHEAR FLOW;

BOUNDARY CONDITION; BREAKING WAVE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GRAVITY WAVE; INTERNAL WAVE; OVERTURN; RICHARDSON NUMBER; SHEAR FLOW; VORTICITY; WAVE ENERGY; WAVE MODELING; WAVE PROPAGATION;

EID: 77958560065     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2010JPO4432.1     Document Type: Article

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