Inertial-Convective subrange estimates of thermal variance dissipation rate from moored temperature measurements

Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology

Volumn 27, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 1950-1959

  Zhang, Yanwei ^a   Moum, James N ^b  

^a China   (China)

^b OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACKGROUND CURRENT; DATA PAIRS; DISSIPATION RATES; FREQUENCY RANGES; INDUCED SIGNAL; MEASURED SIGNALS; NATIONAL DATA BUOY CENTERS; NATURAL VARIABILITY; SCALING TEMPERATURES; SUBRANGE; SURFACE GRAVITY WAVES; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT SPECTRA; TROPICAL ATMOSPHERES; TURBULENCE MEASUREMENTS; VERTICAL MOTIONS; VERTICAL TEMPERATURE GRADIENTS; WAVE NUMBERS;

GRAVITATIONAL EFFECTS; GRAVITY WAVES; HYDRODYNAMICS; PUMPS; SURFACE WAVES; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; THERMAL GRADIENTS;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

DATA BUOY; GRAVITY WAVE; KINETIC ENERGY; MEASUREMENT METHOD; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT;

EID: 78649394723     PISSN: 07390572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2010JTECHO746.1     Document Type: Article

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