East-west asymmetry in nonlinear internal waves from Luzon Strait

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 115, Issue 10, 2010, Pages

  Buijsman, M C ^a,b   McWilliams, J C ^a   Jackson, C R ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c Global Ocean Associates   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISPERSION (WAVES); ENERGY CONVERSION; OCEAN CURRENTS; SATELLITE IMAGERY; STREAM FLOW; TIDAL POWER; TIDES;

BAROCLINIC; BAROTROPIC; BAROTROPIC TIDES; CORIOLIS; GAUSSIANS; INTERNAL TIDES; KUROSHIO; KUROSHIO CURRENT; MODEL RESULTS; NON-LINEARITY PARAMETER; NONLINEAR INTERNAL WAVE; PACIFIC OCEAN; REGIONAL OCEAN MODELING SYSTEM; SOUTH CHINA SEA; THERMOCLINE SHOALING; TIDAL CURRENTS; TIDAL FORCING; WESTERN PACIFIC OCEANS;

SOLITONS;

ASYMMETRY; BAROCLINIC MOTION; CORIOLIS FORCE; INTERNAL WAVE; NONLINEAR WAVE; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SHOALING WAVE; THERMOCLINE; TIDAL CURRENT;

KUROSHIO CURRENT; LUZON STRAIT; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (WEST); SOUTH CHINA SEA;

EID: 78149350541     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009JC006004     Document Type: Article

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