Multimodal structure of baroclinic tides in the South China Sea

Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 529-543

  Vlasenko, V ^a   Stashchuk, N ^a   Guo, C ^b   Chen, X ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^b OCEAN UNIVERSITY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAROTROPIC MOTION; BOTTOM TOPOGRAPHY; INTERNAL TIDE; INTERNAL WAVE; ISOPYCNAL LAYER; NUMERICAL MODEL; SOLITARY WAVE;

LUZON STRAIT; PACIFIC OCEAN; SOUTH CHINA SEA;

EID: 77957789264     PISSN: 10235809     EISSN: 16077946     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/npg-17-529-2010     Document Type: Article

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