Oceanic internal-wave field: Theory of scale-invariant spectra

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 40, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 2605-2623

  Lvov, Yuri V ^a   Polzin, Kurt L ^b   Tabak, Esteban G ^c   Yokoyama, Naoto ^d  

^a RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^c NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d DOSHISHA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Internal waves; Oceanic; Spectral analysis; Waves

Indexed keywords

COLLISION INTEGRAL; CORIOLIS PARAMETER; DIFFUSION REGIMES; EFFECTS OF ROTATION; EXACT SOLUTION; EXTREME SCALE; INTERNAL GRAVITY WAVES; INTERNAL WAVES; KINETIC EQUATIONS; NON-LOCAL INTERACTIONS; NUMERICAL SOLUTION; OCEANIC; POWER LAW EXPONENT; POWER-LAW; RESONANT INTERACTION; SCALE-INVARIANT; SELF-CONSISTENCY; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; SPECTRAL POWER; STATIONARY STATE; WAVE NUMBERS; WAVE TURBULENCE; WAVEFIELDS; WEAK NONLINEARITY;

GRAVITATIONAL EFFECTS; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; KINETIC ENERGY; KINETIC THEORY; KINETICS; PLASMA COLLISION PROCESSES; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

CONTROL NONLINEARITIES;

GRAVITY WAVE; INTERNAL WAVE; NONLINEARITY; NUMERICAL MODEL; POWER LAW DISTRIBUTION; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; THEORETICAL STUDY; TURBULENCE; WAVE EQUATION; WAVE FIELD;

EID: 79251514292     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2010JPO4132.1     Document Type: Article

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