Global energy conversion rate from geostrophic flows into internal lee waves in the deep ocean

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 38, Issue 8, 2011, Pages

  Nikurashin, Maxim ^a   Ferrari, Raffaele ^b  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; ENERGY CONVERSION; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; WIND POWER;

BOTTOM TOPOGRAPHY; DEEP OCEAN; ENERGY FLUXES; ENERGY SINKS; ENERGY SOURCE; GEOSTROPHIC FLOW; GLOBAL ESTIMATE; GLOBAL OCEAN MODEL; GLOBAL WINDS; INTERNAL WAVES; LEE WAVES; LINEAR THEORY; SINGLE BEAM; SOUTHERN OCEAN; TOTAL ENERGY FLUX; TURBULENT MIXING;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

BOTTOM TOPOGRAPHY; CLIMATOLOGY; DEEP SEA; ECHO SOUNDING; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; ESTIMATION METHOD; GEOSTROPHIC FLOW; INTERNAL WAVE; LEE WAVE; NUMERICAL MODEL; TURBULENT MIXING; VELOCITY; WAVE POWER; WIND POWER;

SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EID: 79955462718     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011GL046576     Document Type: Article

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