Nonlinear wave packets of equatorial Kelvin waves

Geophysical and Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics

Volumn 96, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 357-379

  Chen, Guan Yu ^a   Boyd, John P ^b  

^a Institute of Transportation   (Taiwan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Equatorial Kelvin; Nonlinear waves; Wavepacket

Indexed keywords

GEOPHYSICS; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; NONLINEAR SYSTEMS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES;

EQUATORIAL KELVIN; NONLINEAR SCHROEDINGER EQUATION; NONLINEAR WAVES; WAVEPACKETS;

WATER WAVES;

GEOPHYSICS; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; NONLINEAR SYSTEMS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; WATER WAVES;

KELVIN WAVE; NONLINEAR WAVE; NONLINEARITY; PERTURBATION; SHALLOW-WATER EQUATION; WAVE EQUATION;

EID: 0038243570     PISSN: 03091929     EISSN: 10290419     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0309192021000044910     Document Type: Article

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