The evolution of internal waves in a rotating, stratified, circular basin and the influence of weakly nonlinear and nonhydrostatic accelerations

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 53, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 2738-2748

  De La Fuente, Alberto ^a   Shimizu, Kenji ^b   Imberger, Jörg ^b   Niño, Yarko ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERNAL WAVE; KELVIN WAVE; SOLITARY WAVE; WAVE ENERGY;

EID: 55749085494     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.2008.53.6.2738     Document Type: Article

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