Breaking internal waves on a shelf slope using numerical simulations

Oceanography

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 132-139

  Venayagamoorthy, Subhas K ^a   Fringer, Oliver B ^b  

^a Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering and School of Biomedical Engineering   (United States)

^b Stanford University   (United States)

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EID: 84863461351     PISSN: 10428275     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5670/oceanog.2012.48     Document Type: Article

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