Impacts of tidal currents and Kuroshio intrusion on the generation of nonlinear internal waves in Luzon Strait

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 113, Issue 8, 2008, Pages

  Du, Tao ^a,c   Tseng, Yu Heng ^b   Yan, Xiao Hai ^c,d  

^a OCEAN UNIVERSITY OF CHINA   (China)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^d XIAMEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OCEAN CURRENTS; REMOTE SENSING; SALT WATER INTRUSION; TIDES; WATER WAVES;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTERNAL WAVE; MIXING; NONLINEAR WAVE; REMOTE SENSING; SOLITARY WAVE; TIDAL CURRENT; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; WAVE GENERATION;

ASIA; EURASIA; KUROSHIO CURRENT; LUZON STRAIT; PACIFIC OCEAN; SOUTH CHINA SEA;

EID: 56049122221     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007JC004294     Document Type: Article

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