A mechanism for local dissipation of internal tides generated at rough topography

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 378-395

  Nikurashin, Maxim ^a   Legg, Sonya ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Tides; Topographic effects; Wave breaking

Indexed keywords

CONTROL SIMULATION; CORIOLIS; ENHANCED MIXING; FLOW CHARACTERISTIC; FREQUENCY PARAMETERS; HIGH RESOLUTION; INTERNAL TIDES; INTERNAL WAVE BREAKING; INTERNAL WAVES; MULTISCALES; NONLINEAR WAVES; NUMERICAL MODELS; TEMPORAL CHARACTERISTICS; TIDAL MIXING; TIME-SCALES; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECTS; TOPOGRAPHIC ROUGHNESS; TRANSFER TIME; TURBULENT MIXING; VERTICAL PROFILE; WAVEBREAKING;

ELECTRON ENERGY LOSS SPECTROSCOPY; ENERGY DISSIPATION; ENERGY DISSIPATORS; MIXING; TIDAL POWER; TIDES; TOPOGRAPHY;

WAVE ENERGY CONVERSION;

ENERGY DISSIPATION; INTERNAL TIDE; INTERNAL WAVE; PARAMETERIZATION; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECT; TURBULENT MIXING; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; WAVE BREAKING; WAVE-WAVE INTERACTION;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BRAZIL BASIN;

EID: 79953186130     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2010JPO4522.1     Document Type: Article

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