Abstract
Abstract We present the results of a comprehensive study of large-amplitude internal solitons generated in the Sulu Sea in the Philippines by intense tidal flow over a sharp bathymetric feature. Surface signatures of these waves have been observed in images from the DMSP, Landsat, and Nimbus-7 satellites and the space shuttle SIR-A synthetic aperture radar. A two-week experiment was conducted in the Sulu Sea in May 1980 from R.V. Oceanograher, during which a three-mooring phased array of current meters and thermistors was implanted near the wave source and at 82 km and 200 km from the source. Seventeen soliton packets were observed whose properties underwent significant change as they propagated across the sea. Vertical profiles of density, temperature, and acoustic backscatter, as well as radar and photographic surface signatures, were obtained from the ship. Data from satellites, moorings, and the ship give unprecedented information on the spatial and temporal characteristics of solitary waves, which ha...
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