The island-scale internal wave climate of Moorea, French Polynesia

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 117, Issue 6, 2012, Pages

  Leichter, James J ^a   Stokes, M Dale ^a   Hench, James L ^b   Witting, Jan ^c   Washburn, Libe ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY MARINE LABORATORY   (United States)

^c Sea Education Association   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OCEANOGRAPHY; REEFS; WAVE ENERGY CONVERSION;

COMPLEX PATTERN; CROSS CORRELATIONS; DIAPYCNAL MIXING; DISTANT SOURCE; FLUORESCENCE MAXIMA; HIGH FREQUENCY; INTERNAL WAVE ACTIVITY; INTERNAL WAVES; MAXIMUM DENSITY; NUTRICLINE; ONSHORE FLOW; PARTICLE FLUXES; RICHARDSON NUMBER; SEMI-DIURNAL; SHALLOW WATERS; SLOPE ANGLES; SUPER-CRITICAL; TEMPERATURE CHANGES; TEMPERATURE VARIATION; VERTICAL GRADIENTS; VERTICAL SHEAR; VERTICAL STRATIFICATION;

SHEAR FLOW;

DIURNAL VARIATION; FLUORESCENCE; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; INTERNAL WAVE; MIXING; PYCNOCLINE; REEF; SHALLOW WATER; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT;

MOOREA; SOCIETY ISLANDS; WINDWARD ISLANDS [SOCIETY ISLANDS];

EID: 84862284821     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012JC007949     Document Type: Article

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