Solitary waves in the western Equatorial Pacific Ocean

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 24, Issue 13, 1997, Pages 1603-1606

  Pinkel, R ^a   Merrifield, M ^b   McPhaden, M ^c   Picaut, J ^d   Rutledge, S ^e   Siegel, D ^f   Washburn, L ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^c NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^d INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (New Caledonia)

^e Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLOW OF WATER; OCEAN CURRENTS; OCEANOGRAPHY; SURFACE WATERS; TIDES; VELOCITY; WATER WAVES; EARTH SCIENCES; GEOPHYSICS;

SOLITARY INTERNAL WAVES; WESTERN EQUATORIAL PACIFIC OCEAN;

GEOPHYSICS; SOLITONS;

SOLITARY WAVES; SPRING TIDES; WAVE MODELLING;

PACIFIC, (EQUATORIAL WEST);

BACKGROUND FLOW; BAROCLINIC TIDES; EQUATORIAL PACIFIC OCEAN; EQUATORIAL UNDERCURRENTS; LATERAL ACCELERATION; PEAK AMPLITUDE; SOLITARY INTERNAL WAVES; VERTICAL DISPLACEMENTS;

EID: 0031193285     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/97GL01610     Document Type: Article

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