Internal tide coherence and decay over a wide shelf sea

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 38, Issue 23, 2011, Pages

  Inall, Mark ^a   Aleynik, Dmitry ^a   Boyd, Tim ^a   Palmer, Matthew ^b   Sharples, Jonathan ^b,c  

^a SCOTTISH MARINE INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DECAY (ORGANIC);

CONTINENTAL SHELVES; DECAY RATE; DISSIPATION RATES; ENERGY DECAY; IN-SITU; INTERNAL TIDES; SHELF EDGES;

TIDES;

DISSIPATION; ESTIMATION METHOD; HYDROGRAPHY; INTERNAL TIDE; MEASUREMENT METHOD; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; SHELF BREAK; VELOCITY; WAVELENGTH;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; CELTIC SEA;

EID: 83455231498     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011GL049943     Document Type: Article

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