Turbulence and high-frequency variability in a deep gravity current outflow

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 39, Issue 17, 2012, Pages

  Nash, Jonathan D ^a   Peters, Hartmut ^b   Kelly, Samuel M ^a,c   Pelegrí, Josep L ^d   Emelianov, Mikhail ^d   Gasser, Marc ^d  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b EARTH AND SPACE RESEARCH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^d INSTITUT DE CIÈNCIES DEL MAR   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENERGY DISSIPATION; GRAVITY WAVES; MIXING;

CHOKE POINTS; GLOBAL CLIMATE MODEL; GRAVITY CURRENTS; HIGH FREQUENCY HF; INTENSIVE SAMPLING; INTERNAL WAVES; LARGE AMPLITUDE OSCILLATION; STRAIT OF GIBRALTAR; TIME-VARYING FLOW;

GRAVITATION;

AMPLITUDE; CLIMATE MODELING; DISSIPATION; GLOBAL CLIMATE; GRAVITY FLOW; INTERNAL WAVE; MIXING; OUTFLOW; TURBULENCE;

STRAIT OF GIBRALTAR;

EID: 84867191038     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012GL052899     Document Type: Article

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