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Internal wave breaking and microstructure (The chicken and the egg)

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This review emphasizes the space-time scales of internal waves in the sea, and the complex set of interrelations with microstructure. M ixing by breaking internal waves is briefly considered. A curious asymmetry is noted between the methods of observing microstructure in the oceans and atmosphere.[/p]

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  1. Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics and the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, 92037, La Jolla, Calif., USA

    Walter H. Munk

  2. Dept. of Oceanography, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada

    Christopher J. R. Garrett

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Munk, W.H., Garrett, C.J.R. Internal wave breaking and microstructure (The chicken and the egg). Boundary-Layer Meteorol 4, 37–45 (1973). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02265224

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