Internal tides in monterey submarine canyon

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 186-204

  Hall, Rob A ^a   Carter, Glenn S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

Tides

Indexed keywords

BAROCLINIC; BAROTROPIC; CANYON RIM; ENERGY FLUXES; INTERNAL TIDE GENERATION; INTERNAL TIDES; MODEL DOMAINS; ORDER OF MAGNITUDE; PRESSURE PERTURBATION; PRINCETON OCEAN MODEL; REMOTE AREAS; SUBMARINE CANYON;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENERGY CONVERSION; SUBMARINES;

TIDES;

BAROTROPIC TIDE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENERGY FLUX; INTERNAL TIDE; NUMERICAL MODEL; SUBMARINE CANYON; TIDAL CONSTITUENT; TIDAL MODELING;

MONTEREY CANYON; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 79951631645     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2010JPO4471.1     Document Type: Article

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