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Observations of highly nonlinear internal solitons generated by near‐inertial internal waves off the east coast of Korea
Author(s) -
Kim Hyoung Rok,
Ahn Saeyoung,
Kim Kuh
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
geophysical research letters
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.007
H-Index - 273
eISSN - 1944-8007
pISSN - 0094-8276
DOI - 10.1029/2001gl013130
Subject(s) - internal wave , thermocline , wave packet , internal tide , korteweg–de vries equation , nonlinear system , inertial frame of reference , geology , physics , geophysics , seismology , climatology , oceanography , classical mechanics , quantum mechanics
Solitary internal wave packets were observed in May 1999, propagating toward the east coast of Korea with thermocline displacements up to twentysix meters downward from the initial depth of twenty meters. High nonlinearity of these waves is represented by the second‐order KdV model better than KdV equations. Regular occurrence of solitary internal wave packets with the period of about nineteen hours suggests the generation by near‐inertial internal waves, which has not been reported in the literature yet.