Internal tidal beams and mixing near Monterey Bay

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 116, Issue 3, 2011, Pages

  Johnston, T M Shaun ^a   Rudnick, Daniel L ^a   Carter, Glenn S ^b   Todd, Robert E ^a   Cole, Sylvia T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; DOPPLER EFFECT; OCEAN HABITATS; SUBMARINES; TIDES; WAVE PROPAGATION;

CONDUCTIVITY TEMPERATURE DEPTHS; DETUNED; DISPLACEMENT VARIANCE; ENERGY DENSITY; INTERNAL TIDES; INTERNAL WAVES; MEAN CURRENTS; MEAN VALUES; MESOSCALE VARIABILITY; MONTEREY BAY; ORDER OF MAGNITUDE; PEAK VALUES; SPATIAL STRUCTURE; TIDAL GENERATION; TIDAL MODELS; VESSEL-MOUNTED ACOUSTIC DOPPLER CURRENT PROFILERS;

UNDERWATER ACOUSTICS;

ACOUSTIC DOPPLER CURRENT PROFILER; DISSIPATION; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; MIXING RATIO; NEPHELOID LAYER; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARAMETERIZATION; SAMPLING; SUBMARINE RIDGE; TIDAL CURRENT; TURBULENCE;

CALIFORNIA; MONTEREY BAY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 79952759185     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010JC006592     Document Type: Article

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