Evidence of short internal waves trailing strong internal solitary waves in the northern South China Sea from synthetic aperture radar observations

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 124, Issue , 2012, Pages 542-550

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^b OCEAN UNIVERSITY OF CHINA   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Internal solitary waves; Luzon Strait; SAR images; Short internal waves; South China Sea

Indexed keywords

INTERNAL SOLITARY WAVES; INTERNAL WAVES; LUZON STRAIT; SAR IMAGES; SOUTH CHINA SEA;

GEODETIC SATELLITES; OCEAN CURRENTS; SHEAR FLOW; SOLITONS;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

BAROCLINIC WAVE; ENVISAT-1; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; INTERNAL TIDE; INTERNAL WAVE; NUMERICAL MODEL; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SEA SURFACE; SOLITARY WAVE; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TIDAL CURRENT; TIDAL CYCLE; TOPOGRAPHY; WAVE FIELD; WAVELENGTH;

LUZON STRAIT; PACIFIC OCEAN; SOUTH CHINA SEA;

EID: 84863423060     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2012.06.001     Document Type: Article

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