Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Apel, John R.
• Byrne, H. Michael
• Proni, John R.
• Charnell, Robert L.

Titel

Observations of oceanic internal and surface waves from the earth resources technology satellite

Ist Teil von

• Journal of Geophysical Research, 1975-02, Vol.80 (6), p.865-881

Ort / Verlag

Blackwell Publishing Ltd

Erscheinungsjahr

1975

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Periodic features observed on the ocean surface from the Earth Resources Technology Satellite 1 have been interpreted as surface slicks due to internal wave packets. They appear to be generated at the edge of the continental shelf by semidiurnal and diurnal tidal actions and propagate shoreward. Nonlinear effects apparently distort the wave packets as they progress across the shelf. This observational technique constitutes a new tool for delineating two dimensions of the internal wave field under certain limited conditions.