Solitary wave effects north of Strait of Messina

Ocean Modelling

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 97-121

  Warn Varnas, A ^a   Hawkins, J ^b   Smolarkiewicz, P K ^c   Chin Bing, S A ^a   King, D ^a   Hallock, Z ^a  

^a NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b PLANNING SYSTEMS INC   (United States)

^c NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Barotropic tide; CTD chain data; Messina sill; Ocean models; Solitary waves; Wavelet analysis

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; SALINITY MEASUREMENT; SOLITONS; TEMPERATURE; WAVE PROPAGATION; WAVELET ANALYSIS;

BAROTROPIC TIDE; PARABOLIC ACOUSTICAL MODEL; SEMIDIURNAL TIDAL MAGNITUDES;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

BAROTROPIC TIDE; NUMERICAL MODEL; SHOALING WAVE; SOLITARY WAVE; WAVE GENERATION; WAVE PROPAGATION; WAVELET ANALYSIS;

EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; SOUTHERN EUROPE; STRAIT OF MESSINA; TYRRHENIAN SEA;

EID: 34250685065     PISSN: 14635003     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ocemod.2007.03.003     Document Type: Article

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