Effect of the North Equatorial Counter Current on the generation and propagation of internal solitary waves off the Amazon shelf (SAR observations)

Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imagery from the Amazon shelf break region in the tropical west Atlantic reveals for the first time the two-dimensional horizontal structure of an intense Internal Solitary Wave (ISW) field, whose first surface manifestations are detected several hundred kilometres awa...

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Main Authors: J. M. Magalhaes, J. C. B. da Silva, M. C. Buijsman, C. A. E. Garcia
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Copernicus Publications 2016-02-01
Series:Ocean Science
Online Access:http://www.ocean-sci.net/12/243/2016/os-12-243-2016.pdf