Stratified inertial subrange inferred from in situ measurements in the bottom boundary layer of the rockall channel

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 40, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 2401-2417

  Bouruet Aubertot, Pascale ^a   Van Haren, Hans ^b   Lelong, M Pascale ^c  

^a SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^b ROYAL NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SEA RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^c North West Research Associates ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Boundary layer; Ocean dynamics; Temperature

Indexed keywords

BOTTOM BOUNDARY LAYER; BUOYANCY FREQUENCY; ENERGY LEVEL; ENERGY SOURCE; HIGH RESOLUTION; HORIZONTAL VELOCITY; IN-SITU MEASUREMENT; INERTIAL SUBRANGE; MOORED TEMPERATURE; OCEAN DYNAMICS; TAYLOR HYPOTHESIS; TEMPERATURE VARIANCE; THEORETICAL EXPRESSION; TIME-PERIODS; WAVE NUMBERS; WAVENUMBER SPECTRA; WEAK STRATIFICATION;

ELECTRON ENERGY LEVELS; ELECTRON ENERGY LOSS SPECTROSCOPY; ENERGY DISSIPATION; FREQUENCY BANDS; GRAVITATIONAL EFFECTS; NICKEL COMPOUNDS; TIDES;

BOUNDARY LAYERS;

BOUNDARY LAYER; DISSIPATION; GRAVITY WAVE; KINETIC ENERGY; PARAMETERIZATION; POTENTIAL ENERGY; STRATIFICATION; STRATIFIED FLOW;

EID: 78650183223     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2010JPO3957.1     Document Type: Article

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