Internal solitary waves induced by flow over a ridge: With applications to the northern South China Sea

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 114, Issue 2, 2009, Pages

  Shaw, Ping Tung ^a   Ko, Dong Shan ^b   Chao, Shenn Yu ^c  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OCEAN ENGINEERING; STREAM FLOW; TIDAL POWER; WAVES;

BAROTROPIC; BAROTROPIC TIDES; CRITICAL VALUE; DIURNAL PERIOD; INTERNAL SOLITARY WAVES; INTERNAL TIDES; INTERNAL WAVE BEAMS; INTERNAL WAVES; LEE WAVES; MIXED LAYER; NORTHERN SOUTH CHINA SEA; NUMERICAL MODELS; SOLITARY WAVE; TIDAL BORE; TIDAL FLOW; UPPER OCEAN; WAVE BEAMS; WAVE GENERATION;

TIDES;

BAROTROPIC TIDE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FROUDE NUMBER; MIXED LAYER; NUMERICAL MODEL; REFRACTION; SOLITARY WAVE; STRATIFICATION; WAVE GENERATION;

PACIFIC OCEAN; SOUTH CHINA SEA;

EID: 66149174930     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008JC005007     Document Type: Article

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