The stokes drift and wave induced-mass flux in the North Pacific

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 117, Issue 8, 2012, Pages

  Tamura, Hitoshi ^a   Miyazawa, Yasumasa ^a   Oey, Lie Yauw ^b  

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

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL MEAN; ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; BULK WAVES; BUOY DATA; DIRECTIONAL WAVES; DRIFT RANGE; E-FOLDING; GEOSTROPHIC CURRENTS; IN-SITU; KUROSHIO EXTENSION; MESOSCALE; NORTH PACIFIC; NORTH PACIFIC OCEAN; SATELLITE ALTIMETRY DATA; STRONG WAVES; THIRD GENERATION; VERTICAL VELOCITY; WAVE HEIGHTS; WAVE MODELS; WAVE MOMENTUM; WAVE SPECTRA; WAVEFIELDS;

OCEAN CURRENTS;

ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLUX MEASUREMENT; MASS TRANSPORT; MOMENTUM; NUMERICAL MODEL; OCEANIC CURRENT; OCEANIC FRONT; REFRACTION; SATELLITE ALTIMETRY; SATELLITE DATA; STOKES FORMULA; VELOCITY; WATER MASS; WAVE HEIGHT;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 84865520376     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012JC008113     Document Type: Article

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