Analytical and observational studies of internal solitary waves in the Yellow Sea

Journal of Coastal Research

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1403-1416

  Teixeira, Marvi ^a   Warn Varnas, Alex ^b   Apel, John ^c   Hawkins, Jim ^d  

^a POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO   (Puerto Rico)

^b NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c Global Ocean Associates   (United States)

^d PLANNING SYSTEMS INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Internal wave models; SAR; Synthetic Aperture Radar

Indexed keywords

BOTTOM TOPOGRAPHY; INTERNAL WAVE; MONITORING; SOLITARY WAVE; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECT; TRAVEL TIME; WAVE MODELING; WAVE PROPAGATION;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; PACIFIC OCEAN; YANGTZE RIVER; YELLOW SEA;

EID: 33845802458     PISSN: 07490208     EISSN: 15515036     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2112/04-0339.1     Document Type: Article

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