The formation and fate of internal waves in the South China Sea

Nature

Volumn 521, Issue 7550, 2015, Pages 65-69

  Alford, Matthew H ^a,b   Peacock, Thomas ^c   Mackinnon, Jennifer A ^a   Nash, Jonathan D ^d   Buijsman, Maarten C ^e   Centuroni, Luca R ^a   Chao, Shenn Yu ^f   Chang, Ming Huei ^g   Farmer, David M ^h,p   Fringer, Oliver B ⁱ   Fu, Ke Hsien ^j   Gallacher, Patrick C ^k   Graber, Hans C ^l   Helfrich, Karl R ^m   Jachec, Steven M ⁿ   Jackson, Christopher R ^o   Klymak, Jody M ^p   Ko, Dong S ^k   Jan, Sen ^g   Johnston, T M Shaun ^a   Legg, Sonya ^q   Lee, I Huan ^j   Lien, Ren Chieh ^b   Mercier, Matthieu J ^r   Moum, James N ^d   Musgrave, Ruth ^a   Park, Jae Hun ^s   Pickering, Andrew I ^b,c   Pinkel, Robert ^a   Rainville, Luc ^b   Ramp, Steven R ^t   Rudnick, Daniel L ^a   Sarkar, Sutanu ^u   Scotti, Alberto ^v   Simmons, Harper L ^w   St Laurent, Louis C ^m   Venayagamoorthy, Subhas K ^x   Wang, Yu Huai ^j   Wang, Joe ^g   Yang, Yiing J ^g   Paluszkiewicz, Theresa ^y   Tang, Tswen Yung ^g   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^g NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^h UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

ⁱ STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^j NATIONAL SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^k STENNIS SPACE CENTER   (United States)

^l UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^m WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

ⁿ FLORIDA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^o Global Ocean Assoc   (United States)

^p UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^q PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^r IMFT   (France)

^s Korea Research Institute of Ships and Ocean Engineering   (South Korea)

^t Soliton Ocean Services   (United States)

^u UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^v UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^w UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

^x Veterinary Dentistry and Oral Surgery   (United States)

^y OFFICE OF NAVAL RESEARCH   (United States)

more..

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CURRENT; CLIMATE MODELING; ENERGY BUDGET; GRAVITY WAVE; INTERNAL WAVE; OPEN OCEAN; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; WAVE MODELING; WAVE PROPAGATION;

ARTICLE; CLIMATE; CONTINENTAL SHELF; DISPERSION; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; FIELD STUDY; GEOGRAPHIC AND GEOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; INTERNAL WAVES; OCEAN CURRENT; OSCILLATION; POLLUTION TRANSPORT; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALINITY; SEA; SEASHORE; SEDIMENT; TIDE;

PACIFIC OCEAN; SOUTH CHINA SEA;

EID: 84929092277     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature14399     Document Type: Article

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