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Internal waves under the Arctic pack ice during the Arctic Internal Wave Experiment: The coherence structure

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Title Internal waves under the Arctic pack ice during the Arctic Internal Wave Experiment: The coherence structure
Names Levine, Murray D. (creator)
Date Issued 1990-05-15 (iso8601)
Note Copyrighted by American Geophysical Union.
Abstract The spectral composition of internal gravity waves under the Arctic pack ice during the Arctic
Internal Wave Experiment (AIWEX) was found to be strikingly different from observations at lower
latitudes. Time series of vertical displacement were inferred from horizontal and vertical arrays of
temperature and conductivity sensors. Frequency spectra indicate a whiter spectrum (spectral slope
near -1) and a less energetic wave field (by a factor of 0.02) than observations at lower latitude. The
analysis of vertical and horizontal coherences revealed a horizontally isotropic wave field that is
consistent with assumptions of a random field of linear internal waves. The wavenumber bandwidth of
the wave field is about a factor of 10 wider than found at lower latitude.
Genre Article
Identifier Levine, M. (1990), Internal waves under the Arctic pack ice during the Arctic Internal Wave Experiment: The coherence structure, J. Geophys. Res., 95(C5), 7347-7357. doi:10.1029/JC095iC05p07347

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