Internal tides, nonlinear internal wave trains, and mixing in the Faroe-Shetland Channel

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 116, Issue 3, 2011, Pages

  Hall, R A ^a,b,c   Huthnance, J M ^a   Williams, R G ^b  

^a NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON ENERGY LOSS SPECTROSCOPY; ENERGY DISSIPATION; KINETIC ENERGY; LOCOMOTIVES; RAILROAD CARS; WAVE ENERGY CONVERSION;

BAROCLINIC; ENERGY FLUXES; INTERNAL TIDES; MODEL RESULTS; NONLINEAR INTERNAL WAVE; NUMERICAL MODELS; ORDER OF MAGNITUDE; PEAK ENERGY; SUPER-CRITICAL; THOMSON; THORPE SCALE; TURBULENT KINETIC ENERGY; WAVE TRAIN;

TIDES;

DISSIPATION; ENERGY FLUX; INTEGRATED APPROACH; INTERNAL TIDE; INTERNAL WAVE; KINETIC ENERGY; MAGNITUDE; MIXING; NONLINEARITY; NUMERICAL MODEL; PYCNOCLINE; SEMIDIURNAL TIDE; SLOPE; TIDAL POWER; TURBULENCE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; FAROE-SHETLAND CHANNEL;

EID: 79952470270     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010JC006213     Document Type: Article

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