Amplified Msf tides at Kochi backwaters on the southwest coast of India

Current Science

Volumn 97, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 776-784

  Joseph, Antony ^a   Balachandran, K K ^a   Mehra, Prakash ^a   Prabhudesai, R G ^a   Kumar, Vijay ^a   Agarvadekar, Yogesh ^a   Revichandran, C ^a   Nitin, Dabholkar ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (India)

Author keywords

Amplification; Bed materials; Kochi backwaters; Nonlinear frictional interaction; Shallowness; Tides

Indexed keywords

EID: 71849115392     PISSN: 00113891     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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