Internal waves in the Strait of Messina studied by a numerical model and synthetic aperture radar images from the ERS 1/2 satellites

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 648-663

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERS; ERS 1/2; FLOW; FLOW MODELLING; INTERNAL WAVE; INTERNAL WAVES; MODELLING; SAR; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TOPOGRAPHY;

MEDITERRANEAN SEA, STRAIT OF MESSINA;

EID: 0030828612     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0485(1997)027<0648:IWITSO>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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