Moored observations of episodic abyssal flow and mixing at station ALOHA

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 38, Issue 15, 2011, Pages

  Alford, M H ^a   Lukas, Roger ^b   Howe, Bruce ^b   Pickering, Andy ^a   Santiago Mandujano, Fernando ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TIME SERIES;

ABYSSAL MIXING; CTD PROFILES; INTERMITTENCY; INTERNAL WAVES; KELVIN-HELMHOLTZ INSTABILITIES; POTENTIAL TEMPERATURE; TEMPORALLY RESOLVED; THORPE SCALE;

SHEAR FLOW;

ABYSSAL CIRCULATION; DIFFUSIVITY; EPISODIC EVENT; INTERNAL WAVE; KELVIN-HELMHOLTZ INSTABILITY; MIXING; MOORING SYSTEM; SILL; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; TIME SERIES;

HAWAII [UNITED STATES]; HAWAIIAN ISLANDS; MAUI; UNITED STATES;

EID: 80051496129     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011GL048075     Document Type: Article

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