Internal wave tunnelling through non-uniformly stratified shear flow

Atmosphere - Ocean

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 47-56

  Brown, G L ^a   Sutherland, B R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLOW VELOCITY; FLUID FLOW; GRAVITY WAVE; INTERNAL WAVE; RICHARDSON NUMBER; SHEAR FLOW;

EID: 85039205723     PISSN: 07055900     EISSN: 14809214     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3137/ao.v450104     Document Type: Article

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