Energy flux and dissipation in luzon strait: Two tales of two ridges

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 41, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 2211-2222

  Alford, Matthew H ^a   Mackinnon, Jennifer A ^b   Nash, Jonathan D ^c   Simmons, Harper ^d   Pickering, Andy ^a   Klymak, Jody M ^e   Pinkel, Robert ^b   Sun, Oliver ^b   Rainville, Luc ^a   Musgrave, Ruth ^b   Beitzel, Tamara ^b   Fu, Ke Hsien ^f   Lu, Chung Wei ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^f NATIONAL SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Internal waves; Mixing

Indexed keywords

BAROCLINIC; DIAPYCNAL DIFFUSIVITY; ENERGY BUDGETS; ENERGY FLUXES; FLUX DIVERGENCES; INTERNAL TIDE GENERATION; INTERNAL TIDES; INTERNAL WAVES; NET ENERGY; PHILIPPINES; STANDING WAVE PATTERNS; TURBULENT DISSIPATION; VERTICAL DISPLACEMENTS;

MIXING; TIME SERIES;

TIDES;

ENERGY BUDGET; ENERGY DISSIPATION; ENERGY FLUX; INTERNAL TIDE; MIXING; WAVE GENERATION; WAVE PROPAGATION; WAVE VELOCITY;

LUZON STRAIT; PHILIPPINES; TAIWAN;

EID: 80051503726     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JPO-D-11-073.1     Document Type: Article

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