Study of the generation and propagation of internal waves in the Strait of Gibraltar using a numerical model and synthetic aperture radar images of the European ERS 1 satellite

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 101, Issue C6, 1996, Pages 14237-14252

  Brandt, Peter ^a   Alpers, Werner ^a   Backhaus, Jan O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERNAL WAVES; STRAITS;

INTERNAL WAVE GENERATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; SATELLITE IMAGES; WAVE PROPAGATION;

STRAIT OF GIBRALTER;

EID: 0029827916     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/96JC00540     Document Type: Article

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