Energy Transfer within the Small-Scale Oceanic Internal Wave Spectrum
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Physical Oceanography
سال: 2003
ISSN: 0022-3670,1520-0485
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0485(2003)033<0267:etwtss>2.0.co;2