Coupled ADCPs can yield complete Reynolds stress tensor profiles in geophysical surface flows

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 2011, Pages

  Vermeulen, B ^a   Hoitink, A J F ^a,b   Sassi, M G ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; DOPPLER EFFECT; REYNOLDS NUMBER; TENSORS; TURBULENCE;

ACOUSTIC BEAMS; ACOUSTIC DOPPLER CURRENT PROFILER; COUPLED SYSTEMS; INDONESIA; KALIMANTAN; REYNOLDS STRESS TENSORS; SURFACE FLOW; TURBULENCE ANISOTROPY; VARIANCE METHOD; VERTICAL ALIGNMENT;

YIELD STRESS;

ACOUSTIC DOPPLER CURRENT PROFILER; ANISOTROPY; DATA ASSIMILATION; GEOPHYSICAL METHOD; REYNOLDS NUMBER; SURFACE FLUX; TURBULENCE;

EID: 79953224792     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011GL046684     Document Type: Article

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