Sources of baroclinic tidal energy in the Gaoping Submarine Canyon off southwestern Taiwan

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 116, Issue 12, 2011, Pages

  Chiou, Ming Da ^a   Jan, Sen ^a   Wang, Joe ^a   Lien, Ren Chieh ^b   Chien, Hwa ^c  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OCEAN CURRENTS; SUBMARINES; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TIDES;

BAROCLINIC; BAROCLINIC TIDES; ENERGY BEAMS; MODEL DOMAINS; MODEL RESULTS; STEEP TOPOGRAPHY; SUBMARINE CANYON; TAIWAN STRAITS; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODEL; TIDAL CURRENTS; TIDAL ENERGY; TOTAL VALUES; TURBULENT MIXING; VERTICAL DIFFUSIVITY; VERTICAL DISPLACEMENTS;

TIDAL POWER;

BAROCLINIC MOTION; DIFFUSIVITY; ENERGY FLUX; INTERNAL TIDE; ISOTHERM; SUBMARINE CANYON; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; TIDAL CURRENT; TIDAL MODELING; TIDAL POWER;

KAOPING SUBMARINE CANYON; LUZON STRAIT; PACIFIC OCEAN; SOUTH CHINA SEA; TAIWAN; TAIWAN STRAIT;

EID: 84055221835     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011JC007366     Document Type: Article

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