Observation of equatorial Kelvin solitary waves in a slowly varying thermocline

Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 153-165

  Zheng, Q ^a   Susanto, R D ^a,b   Yan, X H ^a   Liu, W T ^c   Ho, C R ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^b International Research Institute for Climate and Society   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d NATIONAL TAIWAN OCEAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EQUATORIAL WAVE; KELVIN WAVE; SEA LEVEL; THERMAL STRUCTURE; UPPER OCEAN; WAVE PROPAGATION;

EID: 0032322732     PISSN: 10235809     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/npg-5-153-1998     Document Type: Article

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