Prototypical solitons in the South China Sea

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 33, Issue 11, 2006, Pages

  Klymak, Jody M ^a   Pinkel, Robert ^a   Liu, Cho Teng ^b   Liu, Antony K ^c   David, Laura ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c US Office of Naval Research Global Asia   (Japan)

^d University of the Philippines Diliman   (Philippines)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SATELLITES; SHEAR WAVES; TURBULENCE; WATER WAVES; WAVE PROPAGATION;

KORTEWEGDE VRIES (KDV) MODEL; NON-LINEAR INTERNAL WAVES; SOUTH CHINA SEA;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

INTERNAL WAVE; NONLINEAR WAVE; TURBULENCE;

PACIFIC OCEAN; SOUTH CHINA SEA;

EID: 33746405139     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006GL025932     Document Type: Article

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