The lifecycle of axisymmetric internal solitary waves

Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 443-453

  McMillan, J M ^a   Sutherland, B R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AMPLITUDE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLUID FLOW; GRAVITY WAVE; NUMERICAL MODEL; SOLITARY WAVE; STRATIFICATION; THEORETICAL STUDY; WAVE GENERATION; WAVE MODELING; WAVE VELOCITY;

EID: 77957557990     PISSN: 10235809     EISSN: 16077946     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/npg-17-443-2010     Document Type: Article

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