Action of strong internal solitary waves on surface waves

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 107, Issue 10, 2002, Pages

  Bakhanov, Victor V ^a   Ostrovsky, Lev A ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF APPLIED PHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Internal waves; Remote sensing; Soliton; Surface waves; Wave interaction

Indexed keywords

INTERNAL WAVE; SOLITARY WAVE; WAVE-WAVE INTERACTION;

EID: 0037110337     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2001jc001052     Document Type: Article

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