Entropy versus APE production: On the buoyancy power input in the oceans energy cycle

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 37, Issue 22, 2010, Pages

  Tailleux, R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CURRENT THEORIES; ENERGY CYCLE; INDIRECT METHODS; INTERNAL ENERGIES; MECHANICAL ENERGIES; POWER INPUT; SURFACE BUOYANCY FLUX; VISCOUS DISSIPATION;

BUOYANCY;

BUOYANCY; ENERGY DISSIPATION; ENERGY FLUX; ENTROPY; OCEAN WAVE; OCEANIC CURRENT;

EID: 78649500848     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010GL044962     Document Type: Article

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