Observations of internal gravity waves by Argo floats

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 44, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 2370-2386

  Hennon, Tyler D ^a   Riser, Stephen C ^a   Alford, Matthew H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OCEANOGRAPHY;

GLOBAL MEASURES; GLOBAL VARIABILITY; HIGH LATITUDES; INTERNAL GRAVITY WAVES; INTERNAL WAVES; OCEAN MIXING; SUB-INERTIAL; TEMPERATURE AND PRESSURES;

GRAVITY WAVES;

CANONICAL ANALYSIS; GRAVITY WAVE; INTERNAL WAVE; NUMERICAL MODEL; OCEAN WAVE; PRESSURE; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; SURFACE WAVE; WATER DEPTH; WATER TEMPERATURE; WAVE FIELD;

EID: 84907079336     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: 15200485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JPO-D-13-0222.1     Document Type: Article

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