Forcing Mechanisms for Destructive Seiches in the Balearic Islands

Abstract

Our long-term goals are to increase understanding of the role played by internal waves in coastal seiche generation globally and to apply this knowledge to improve hazardous seiche prediction.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 30, 1997
Accession Number
ADA628743

Entities

People

  • David C. Chapman
  • Graham S. Giese

Organizations

  • Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Amplitude
  • Demographic Cohorts
  • Information Operations
  • Internal Waves
  • Measurement
  • Offshore
  • Oscillation
  • Sea Level
  • Stratification
  • Surface Waters
  • Water
  • Waves

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

  • Ocean-Atmosphere Mesoscale Modeling, Data Assimilation, and Flux Boundary Layers
  • Oceanography.