Generation of mesoscale eddies in the lee of the Hawaiian Islands

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 116, Issue 11, 2011, Pages

  Jia, Y ^a   Calil, P H R ^b   Chassignet, E P ^c   Metzger, E J ^d   Potemra, J T ^a   Richards, K J ^a   Wallcraft, A J ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF WATER AND ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

^c FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; ELECTRON ENERGY LOSS SPECTROSCOPY; EXPERIMENTS; KINETIC ENERGY; KINETICS;

ATMOSPHERIC FLOWS; COMPLEX NATURE; DOWN-WELLING; EDDY KINETIC ENERGY; GENERATION FREQUENCY; HAWAIIAN ISLANDS; MESOSCALE EDDY; MODEL EXPERIMENTS; MODEL SOLUTION; MODELING STUDIES; NUMERICAL MODELS; OCEANIC EDDIES; OCEANIC FLOW; SURFACE WINDS; TRADE WINDS; WESTWARD FLOW;

SHEAR FLOW;

ALTIMETRY; EDDY COVARIANCE; KINETIC ENERGY; LEE WAVE; MESOSCALE EDDY; NUMERICAL MODEL; TRADE WIND; WAVE PROPAGATION; WIND SHEAR;

HAWAIIAN ISLANDS;

EID: 80755180961     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011JC007305     Document Type: Article

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