Internal tide dynamics in a topographically complex region: Browse Basin, Australian North West Shelf

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 116, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Rayson, Matthew D ^a   Ivey, Gregory N ^a   Jones, Nicole L ^a   Meuleners, Michael J ^a   Wake, Geoffrey W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b WOODSIDE ENERGY LTD   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAROCLINIC; BAROTROPIC; BAROTROPIC TIDES; CONTINUOUSLY STRATIFIED; DISCRETE LOCATION; FIELD OBSERVATIONS; INTERNAL TIDES; INTERNAL WAVES; LENGTH SCALE; MULTIPLE WAVES; NORTH WEST SHELVES; SHELF BREAK; SHELF ENERGY; SPATIAL VARIABILITY; STEEP TOPOGRAPHY; TOPOGRAPHIC FEATURES;

TIDES;

CIRCULATION MODELING; ENERGY FLUX; INTERNAL TIDE; INTERNAL WAVE; INTERTIDAL ENVIRONMENT; NUMERICAL MODEL; SHELF BREAK; SPATIAL VARIATION; TOPOGRAPHY; WAVE GENERATION;

AUSTRALIAN NORTHWEST SHELF; INDIAN OCEAN;

EID: 79551629241     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009JC005881     Document Type: Article

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