Mixing by Oceanic Lee Waves

DOI10.1146/ANNUREV-FLUID-051220-043904zbMath1459.76176OpenAlexW3082149410MaRDI QIDQ5854198

Sonya M. Legg

Publication date: 16 March 2021

Published in: Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-fluid-051220-043904

zbMATH Keywords

mixing parameterizationinternal wavestratified turbulencelarge-scale oceanic circulationlee wave generation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Hydrology, hydrography, oceanography (86A05) Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to fluid mechanics (76-02) Stratification effects in turbulence (76F45) Geophysical flows (76U60)

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