Trapped core formation within a shoaling nonlinear internal wave

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 511-525

  Lien, Ren Chieh ^a   D'Asaro, Eric A ^a   Henyey, Frank ^a   Chang, Ming Huei ^b   Tang, Tswen Yung ^c   Yang, Yiing Jang ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN OCEAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d Naval Academy   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Internal waves; Ocean dynamics

Indexed keywords

A-TRAIN; BACKGROUND CURRENT; CONTINENTAL SLOPE; COUNTER-ROTATING VORTICES; CURRENT SPEED; DEEPWATER; DEPRESSION WAVES; EDDY DIFFUSIVITIES; FISSION PROCESS; FULLY NONLINEAR; INTERNAL WAVES; NONLINEAR INTERNAL WAVE; NORTHERN SOUTH CHINA SEA; OCEAN DYNAMICS; PROPAGATION SPEED; TRAPPED CORES; TURBULENT KINETIC ENERGY; VERTICAL PROFILE; WAVEBREAKING;

SOLITONS; VORTEX FLOW;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

CONTINENTAL SLOPE; INTERNAL WAVE; SHOALING WAVE; WAVE BREAKING; WAVE MODELING; WAVE PROPAGATION;

PACIFIC OCEAN; SOUTH CHINA SEA;

EID: 84861474115     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2011JPO4578.1     Document Type: Article

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