Using phasor diagrams to distinguish internal wave breaking mechanisms in data and models

Matthew H Alford1, Jody M Klymak2, Jennifer A MacKinnon1, Ali Mashayek3, Jonathan D Nash4, Robert Pinkel5 and Gunnar Voet1, (1)Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States, (2)University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada, (3)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States, (4)Oregon State Univ, Corvallis, OR, United States, (5)Univ California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States