Internal waves and turbulence in the antarctic circumpolar current

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 259-282

  Waterman, Stephanie ^a   Naveira Garabato, Alberto C ^a   Polzin, Kurt L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

Diapycnal mixing; Internal waves; Turbulence

Indexed keywords

ANTARCTIC CIRCUMPOLAR CURRENT; ANTARCTIC CIRCUMPOLAR CURRENTS; DIAPYCNAL DIFFUSIVITY; DIAPYCNAL MIXING; INTERNAL WAVES; TOPOGRAPHIC ROUGHNESS; TURBULENT DISSIPATION; TURBULENT DISSIPATION RATES;

OCEAN CURRENTS; WAVE ENERGY CONVERSION;

TURBULENCE;

DISSIPATION; INTERNAL WAVE; SEAFLOOR; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TURBULENCE; TURBULENT MIXING; WATER COLUMN; WAVE GENERATION;

ANTARCTIC CIRCUMPOLAR CURRENT; INDIAN OCEAN; KERGUELEN PLATEAU; SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EID: 84870572921     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: 15200485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JPO-D-11-0194.1     Document Type: Article

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