Can near-inertial internal waves in the East Sea be observed by synthetic aperture radar?

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 1-4

  Kim, Duk Jin ^a   Nam, SungHyun ^a   Kim, Hyoung Rok ^a   Moon, Wooil M ^a,b   Kim, Kuh ^a  

^a Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMAGE ANALYSIS; SPEED CONTROL; THERMAL EFFECTS; WATER; WATER WAVES;

INTERNAL WAVES; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTIONS; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENTS; WATER TEMPERATURE;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

INTERNAL WAVE; MONITORING; OCEAN WAVE; REMOTE SENSING; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 16344383370     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004GL021532     Document Type: Article

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