The generation and trapping of solitary waves over topography

Science

Volumn 283, Issue 5399, 1999, Pages 188-190

  Farmer, David ^a   Armi, Laurence ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF OCEAN SCIENCES   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TOPOGRAPHY; WAVE BEHAVIOR;

SILL; SOLITARY WAVE; TOPOGRAPHY;

ARTICLE; GEOGRAPHY; GEOLOGY; OCEANIC REGIONS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TOPOGRAPHY;

EID: 0033534653     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.283.5399.188     Document Type: Article

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20. We are indebted to the officers and crew of the C.S.S. Sector for their assistance, K. Bartlett and N. Hulbirt for assistance with processing, and M. Li for helpful discussion. Funded under the U.S. Office of Naval Research program on internal solitary waves.