Internal waves revealed by Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) imagery in the vicinity of the eastern Cretan Arc Straits (Eastern Mediterranean)

Progress in Oceanography

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 553-572

  Velegrakis, A F ^a   Oikonomou, E ^a   Theocharis, A ^b   Collins, M B ^a,c   Kontoyiannis, H ^b   Papadopoulos, V ^b   Voulgaris, G ^a,d   Wells, T ^a   Balopoulos, E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (Greece)

^c MARINE RESEARCH DIVISION   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERNAL WAVE; STRAIT; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; WAVE GENERATION;

CRETAN ARC; MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

EID: 0033509099     PISSN: 00796611     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0079-6611(99)00046-4     Document Type: Review

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