Emergence of wind-driven near-inertial waves in the deep ocean triggered by small-scale eddy vorticity structures

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 41, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1297-1307

  Danioux, Eric ^a   Klein, Patrice ^a   Hecht, Matthew W ^b   Komori, Nobumasa ^c   Roullet, Guillaume ^a   Le Gentil, Sylvie ^a  

^a IRD Centre de Bretagne   (France)

^b LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Eddies; Inertia gravity waves; Mesoscale processes; Oceanic; Resonance; Vorticity; Waves; Wind effects

Indexed keywords

BAROCLINIC MODE; DEEP OCEAN; EDDIES; INERTIA-GRAVITY WAVES; MESOSCALE EDDY FIELDS; MESOSCALE PROCESS; MIDLATITUDES; NEAR-INERTIAL WAVES; OCEANIC; REALISTIC CONDITIONS; RELATIVE VORTICITY; RESONANCE MECHANISM; VERTICAL VELOCITY; VORTICITY STRUCTURE; WIND FORCING;

RESONANCE; TIME SERIES; WIND EFFECTS;

VORTICITY;

DEEP WATER; INERTIA; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; VORTICITY; WAVE PROPAGATION; WAVE VELOCITY; WIND FIELD; WIND FORCING; WIND WAVE;

EID: 80051803628     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2011JPO4537.1     Document Type: Article

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