Internal wave observations in the South China sea: The role of rotation and non-linearity

Atmosphere - Ocean

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 267-280

  Farmer, David ^a   Li, Qiang ^a   Park, Jae Hun ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECHO SOUNDER; GRAVITY WAVE; INTERNAL WAVE; MEASUREMENT METHOD; NONLINEARITY; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; WAVE BREAKING; WAVE DISPERSION; WAVE GENERATION;

LUZON STRAIT; PACIFIC OCEAN; SOUTH CHINA SEA;

EID: 73549119713     PISSN: 07055900     EISSN: 14809214     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3137/OC313.2009     Document Type: Article

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