Buoyancy frequency profiles and internal semidiurnal tide turning depths in the oceans

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 117, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  King, Benjamin ^a   Stone, Mark ^a   Zhang, H P ^a,b   Gerkema, Theo ^c   Marder, M ^a   Scott, Robert B ^d,e   Swinney, Harry L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c ROYAL NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SEA RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE BRETAGNE OCCIDENTALE   (France)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EQUATIONS OF MOTION; GRAVITY WAVES; MONTE CARLO METHODS; SEAWATER; TIDES; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

BUOYANCY FREQUENCY; CORIOLIS EFFECT; DEEP OCEAN; EQUIVALENT EXPRESSION; INTERNAL GRAVITY WAVES; INTERNAL TIDES; MIDLATITUDES; NON-TRADITIONAL; POTENTIAL DENSITY; TIDAL FREQUENCIES; TRADITIONAL APPROXIMATION; WAVE FREQUENCIES; WORLD OCEAN CIRCULATION EXPERIMENT; YIELD VALUE;

BUOYANCY;

BUOYANCY; CORIOLIS FORCE; GRAVITY WAVE; INTERNAL TIDE; SEMIDIURNAL TIDE; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 84859723330     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011JC007681     Document Type: Article

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