Global rate and spectral characteristics of internal gravity wave generation by geostrophic flow over topography

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 116, Issue 9, 2011, Pages

  Scott, R B ^a,b   Goff, J A ^a   Naveira Garabato, A C ^c   Nurser, A J G ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE BRETAGNE OCCIDENTALE   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTIMATION; GRAVITY WAVES; OCEANOGRAPHY; PLANETARY SURFACE ANALYSIS; STRESSES; TOPOGRAPHY;

ABYSSAL CURRENTS; BUOYANCY FREQUENCY; CLIMATOLOGICAL DATA; FINITE AMPLITUDE; GENERAL CIRCULATION; GENERATION RATE; GEOSTROPHIC FLOW; GLOBAL DATA; GLOBAL PATTERNS; GRAVITY FIELD; INDIAN OCEAN; INTERNAL GRAVITY WAVES; LEE WAVES; LENGTH SCALE; LINEAR THEORY; MECHANICAL POWER; OCEAN CIRCULATION MODELS; SEA FLOOR; SMALL SCALE; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; SOUTHERN OCEAN; SPECTRAL CHARACTERISTICS; STATISTICAL PROPERTIES; WORLD OCEAN;

WAVE ENERGY CONVERSION;

ABYSSAL HILL; BUOYANCY; DATA SET; GEOSTROPHIC FLOW; GLOBAL OCEAN; GRAVITY WAVE; INTERNAL WAVE; LEE WAVE; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; ROUGHNESS; SATELLITE ALTIMETRY; SEAFLOOR; SEAFLOOR SPREADING; SEDIMENTATION; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECT; WAVE ENERGY; WAVE GENERATION;

EID: 80053358163     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011JC007005     Document Type: Article

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