Transoceanic infragravity waves impacting antarctic ice shelves

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2010, Pages

  Bromirski, Peter D ^a   Sergienko, Olga V ^b   MacAyeal, Douglas R ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^c PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SEA ICE;

ANTARCTIC ICE SHELVES; FLEXURAL STRESS; INFRA-GRAVITY WAVES; NON-LINEAR WAVE INTERACTIONS; PATAGONIAN COASTS; ROSS ICE SHELVES; SEISMIC OBSERVATION; STRONG COUPLING;

WAVE ENERGY CONVERSION;

EID: 84896503623     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009GL041488     Document Type: Article

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