Nonlinear shallow water tropical instability waves on the equatorial β-plane: Genesis of two distinct types of waves

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 36, Issue 23, 2009, Pages

  Zhou, C ^a   Boyd, J P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EQUATORIAL PACIFIC OCEAN; EXTERNAL FORCING; LINEAR STAGES; MEAN FLOW; NON-LINEARITY; NONLINEAR SHALLOW WATER; SHALLOW WATER EQUATIONS; TROPICAL INSTABILITY WAVES;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

WATER WAVES;

EQUATION; INSTABILITY; OCEAN WAVE; SHALLOW WATER; WAVE GENERATION; WAVELENGTH;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (EQUATORIAL);

EID: 72049128592     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009GL040499     Document Type: Article

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