Are there internal Kelvin waves in Lake Tanganyika?

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 31, Issue 6, 2004, Pages

  Naithani, Jaya ^a   Deleersnijder, Eric ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; HYDRODYNAMICS; LAKES; STORMS; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION; WATER WAVES; GRAVITY WAVES;

CLASSIC SCALING; KELVIN WAVES; DRY SEASONS; EARTH'S ROTATION; LAKE TANGANYIKA; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; WATER CIRCULATION;

GEOPHYSICS; LAKES;

EARTH ROTATION; HYDRODYNAMICS; INTERNAL WAVE; KELVIN WAVE; THERMOCLINE; UPWELLING;

AFRICA; EAST AFRICAN LAKES; LAKE TANGANYIKA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

EID: 18544399217     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2003gl019156     Document Type: Article

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