A canonical statistical theory of oceanic internal waves

DOI10.1017/S0022112089001722zbMath0673.76027MaRDI QIDQ3827670

Kenneth Allen, Richard I. Joseph

Publication date: 1989

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

zbMATH Keywords

Lagrangian variablesmethods of statistical mechanicsinternal wave modesLagrangian frequency wavenumber spectrumMaxwell-Boltzmann-type distributionobserved oceanic spectra

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Hydrology, hydrography, oceanography (86A05) Internal waves for incompressible inviscid fluids (76B55)

Related Items (1)

Nonlinearities and Linearities in Internal Gravity Waves of the Atmosphere and Oceans

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