Abstract
One of the first modern scientific observations of internal waves in the ocean was made in the Arctic by Nansen (1902). Since that time, the bulk of observations of internal waves have been made in temperate oceans. There are a number of reviews of this work, among them are those given in a 1975 collection of internal wave papers in Volume 80 of the Journal of Geophysical Research and by Munk (1981). After three decades of intensive research in temperate waters there are still major questions regarding internal waves: How are they generated? Why do spectral properties of internal waves have the universal properties they appear to have? How do the waves decay and interact with each other? How do they affect the small-scale ocean structure?
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