Research Summaries

Back Generation and Propagation of the Internal Tide and High-Frequency Nonlinear Internal Waves Near the Luzon Strait, South China Sea

Fiscal Year 2007
Division Graduate School of Engineering & Applied Science
Department Oceanography
Investigator(s) Ramp, Steven
Sponsor Office of Naval Research (Navy)
Summary A single mooring designed to measure current, temperature, and salinity over the entire water column will be deployed from April to July 2007 on the sill between Batan and Itbayat Islands, Luzon Straits, Philippines. The array will observe the inlet conditions to the strait on ebb tide and the westward propagation of the internal tide and any high frequency motions which are generated when the tide turns westward. The mooring will document the generation conditions for high-frequency non-linear internal waves to be observed concurrently over the Chinese continental slope by the ONR Nonlinear Internal Wave Initiative (NLIWI). Other moorings to be deployed by colleagues at the University of Rhode Island and the National Taiwan University will track the waves between the generation and transformation sites.
Keywords Internal Waves Buoyancy Fluxes USW
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