Instabilities in an internal solitary-like wave on the Oregon shelf

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 67-87

  Lamb, Kevin G ^a   Farmer, David ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Instability; Internal waves; Kelvin Helmholtz instabilities

Indexed keywords

BACKGROUND CURRENT; CONVECTIVE INSTABILITIES; ENERGY-LOSS RATE; HALF WAVELENGTH; INSTABILITY; INTERNAL WAVES; KELVIN-HELMHOLTZ BILLOWS; KELVIN-HELMHOLTZ INSTABILITIES; LIGHT FLUIDS; NEAR-SURFACE; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; RICHARDSON NUMBER; SHEAR INSTABILITY; SPATIAL GROWTH; SPATIAL STABILITY; TRAPPED SURFACES; UNSTABLE REGIONS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENERGY DISSIPATION; HELMHOLTZ EQUATION; OCEANOGRAPHY; SURFACE WATERS;

SHEAR FLOW;

INTERNAL WAVE; KELVIN-HELMHOLTZ INSTABILITY; OVERTURN; PERTURBATION; PYCNOCLINE; RICHARDSON NUMBER; SIMULATION; SOLITARY WAVE; SURFACE WATER; WAVELENGTH;

OREGON SHELF; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 79951615774     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2010JPO4308.1     Document Type: Article

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