Internal solitons in the ocean and their effect on underwater sound

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 121, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 695-722

  Apel, John R ^a   Ostrovsky, Lev A ^b   Stepanyants, Yury A ^c   Lynch, James F ^d  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ZEL TECHNOLOGIES LLC   (United States)

^c AUSTRALIAN NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ORGANISATION   (Australia)

^d WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTH (PLANET); NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; ROTATION; SHEAR FLOW; UNDERWATER ACOUSTICS;

KORTEWEG-DE VRIES EQUATIONS; SOLITARY WAVES; SOLITON THEORY; UNDERWATER SOUND;

SOLITONS;

WATER;

ACOUSTICS; ANALYTIC METHOD; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; OCEAN CURRENT; OCEANOGRAPHY; PHYSICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESEARCH; REVIEW; SEA; SOUND; THEORETICAL STUDY;

ACOUSTICS; HUMANS; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; OCEANOGRAPHY; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; WATER MOVEMENTS;

EID: 33846709746     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2395914     Document Type: Review

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