Spontaneous inertia-gravity-wave generation by surface-intensified turbulence

Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 699, Issue , 2012, Pages 153-173

  Danioux, E ^a,d   Vanneste, J ^a   Klein, P ^b   Sasaki, H ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^d NORTHWEST RESEARCH ASSOCIATES   (United States)

Author keywords

internal waves; quasi geostrophic flows; wave turbulence interactions

Indexed keywords

ASTROPHYSICS; GRAVITY WAVES; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; TURBULENCE; TURBULENT FLOW; WAVE ENERGY CONVERSION;

BAROCLINIC INSTABILITY; HIGH RESOLUTION SIMULATIONS; INERTIA GRAVITY WAVES; INTERNAL WAVES; QUASI-GEOSTROPHIC FLOWS; QUASI-GEOSTROPHIC MODEL; SPONTANEOUS GENERATION; WAVE-TURBULENCE INTERACTION;

RANDOM NUMBER GENERATION;

BAROCLINIC INSTABILITY; GRAVITY WAVE; QUASI-GEOSTROPHIC FLOW; ROSSBY NUMBER; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; TURBULENCE; WAVE FIELD; WAVE GENERATION;

EID: 84864196756     PISSN: 00221120     EISSN: 14697645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/jfm.2012.90     Document Type: Article

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