On the dissipation of internal solitons in coastal seas

Geophysical and Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics

Volumn 85, Issue 3-4, 1997, Pages 163-194

  Timko, Patrick G ^a   Swaters, Gordon E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Coastal oceanography; Internal tides; Internal waves; Nonlinear waves; Solitary waves; Solitons

Indexed keywords

DISSIPATION; INTERNAL WAVE; SEA;

COASTAL WATERS; INTERNAL WAVES; SOLITONS; WAVE DISSIPATION;

EID: 0030660176     PISSN: 03091929     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03091929708208988     Document Type: Article

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