Sustained, Full-water-column observations of internal waves and mixing near Mendocino Escarpment

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 40, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 2643-2660

  Alford, Matthew H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Internal waves; Mixing; Tides

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC DOPPLER CURRENT PROFILER; ALIASING; BAND PASS FILTERING; CASCADE PROCESS; DEPTH RANGE; DISSIPATION RATES; EASTERN PACIFIC; INTERNAL TIDE GENERATION; INTERNAL TIDES; INTERNAL WAVES; LOW FREQUENCY VARIABILITY; NEAR INERTIAL ENERGY; NEAR-INERTIAL WAVES; PHASE RELATIONSHIPS; RELATIVE STRENGTH; SAMPLING INTERVAL; SHEAR MEASUREMENTS; SPATIO-TEMPORAL STRUCTURES; TURBULENCE DISSIPATION RATE; WAVE MOTIONS; WAVE SHEAR; WAVENUMBER SPECTRA;

DOPPLER EFFECT; ELECTRON ENERGY LOSS SPECTROSCOPY; KINETIC ENERGY; OCEAN HABITATS; TIDES; TURBULENCE;

SHEAR FLOW;

ACOUSTIC DOPPLER CURRENT PROFILER; DISSIPATION; INTERNAL TIDE; INTERNAL WAVE; KINETIC ENERGY; MIXING; TURBULENCE; WATER COLUMN; WAVE VELOCITY;

MENDOCINO ESCARPMENT; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (EAST);

EID: 79251524188     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2010JPO4502.1     Document Type: Article

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