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

Identifier

911.2

Title

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

Subject

Geography

Description

Internal oceanic waves are subsurface gravity waves that can be enormous and travel thousands of kilometres before breaking but they are difficult to study; here observations of such waves in the South China Sea reveal their formation mechanism, extreme turbulence, relationship to the Kuroshio Current and energy budget.

Source

Nature
Vol. 521
No. 7550

Publisher

Nature

Date

07.05.2015

Format

PDF

Language

English

Type

Article

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Files

nature14399.pdf

Citation

Matthew H. Alford, Thomas Peacock, Jennifer A. MacKinnon, Jonathan D. Nash, Maarten C. Buijsman, Luca R. Centuroni, Shenn-Yu Chao, Ming-Huei Chang, David M. Farmer, Oliver B. Fringer, Ke-Hsien Fu, Patrick C. Gallacher, Hans C. Graber, Karl R. Helfrich, Steven M. Jachec, Christopher R. Jackson, Jody M. Klymak, Dong S. Ko, Sen Jan, T. M. Shaun Johnston, Sonya Legg, I-Huan Lee, Ren-Chieh Lien, Matthieu J. Mercier, James N. Moum, Ruth Musgrave, Jae-Hun Park, Andrew I. Pickering, Robert Pinkel, Luc Rainville, Steven R. Ramp, Daniel L. Rudnick, Sutanu Sarkar, Alberto Scotti, Harper L. Simmons, Louis C. St Laurent, Subhas K. Venayagamoorthy, Yu-Huai Wang, Joe Wang, Yiing J. Yang, Theresa Paluszkiewicz & Tswen-Yung (David) Tang, “The formation and fate of internal waves in the South China Sea,” Uwekind Resource Centre, accessed October 13, 2026, https://library.uwekind.com/items/show/202.