Spontaneous generation of near-inertial waves by the Kuroshio Front

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 45, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 2381-2406

  Nagai, Takeyoshi ^a   Tandon, Amit ^b   Kunze, Eric ^c   Mahadevan, Amala ^d  

^a TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF MARINE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS DARTMOUTH   (United States)

^c NORTHWEST RESEARCH ASSOCIATES   (United States)

^d WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

Atm Ocean Structure Phenomena; Circulation Dynamics; Frontogenesis frontolysis; Fronts; Internal waves; Jets; Turbulence; Upwelling downwelling

Indexed keywords

ASTROPHYSICS; FIGHTER AIRCRAFT; JETS; OCEAN CURRENTS; TURBULENCE;

FRONTOGENESIS/FRONTOLYSIS; FRONTS; INTERNAL WAVES; NEAR-INERTIAL INTERNAL WAVES; NEAR-INERTIAL WAVES; QUASI-GEOSTROPHIC; SPONTANEOUS GENERATION; UPWELLING/DOWNWELLING;

SHEAR FLOW;

DOWNWELLING; FRONTOGENESIS; INERTIA; ISOPYCNAL LAYER; JET FLOW; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; TURBULENCE; UPWELLING; WAVE DISPERSION; WAVE GENERATION;

KUROSHIO CURRENT; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 84945939260     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: 15200485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JPO-D-14-0086.1     Document Type: Article

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