Evidence of multimodal structure of the baroclinic tide in the Strait of Gibraltar

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 33, Issue 17, 2006, Pages

  Vazquez A ^a   Stashchuk, N ^b   Vlasenko, V ^b   Bruno, M ^a   Izquierdo, A ^a   Gallacher, P C ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CÁDIZ   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^c NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION; GEOLOGIC MODELS; OCEANOGRAPHY; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

BAROCLINIC TIDE; EMPIRICAL ORTHOGONAL FUNCTIONS; SHORT INTERNAL WAVES; VERTICAL STRUCTURE;

TIDES;

AMPLITUDE; ANALYTICAL METHOD; BAROCLINIC MODE; DATA SET; INTERNAL TIDE; INTERNAL WAVE; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; NUMERICAL MODEL; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD;

MEDITERRANEAN REGION; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; STRAIT OF GIBRALTAR;

EID: 33845643577     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006GL026806     Document Type: Article

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