Analyses of internal solitary waves generated at the Columbia River plume front using SAR imagery

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 112, Issue 7, 2007, Pages

  Pan, Jiayi ^a   Jay, David A ^a   Orton, Philip M ^b  

^a Portland State University   (United States)

^b Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUOYANCY; DENSITY OF LIQUIDS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARAMETERIZATION; RADAR IMAGING; RIVERS; SOLITONS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

NUMERICAL MODEL; RADAR IMAGERY; RIVER PLUME; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SOLITARY WAVE; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

COLUMBIA RIVER; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 34548624282     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006JC003688     Document Type: Article

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