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Internal Wave (1056 words) |
 | LaViolette and Arnone (1988) presented further measurements of internal waves in the Strait, together with simultaneous visual observations from aircraft and the space shuttle. |
| The internal waves are believed to be generated by the tidal flow over Camarinal Sill at the western end of the Strait. |
| They attribute the frequent generation of internal waves in the region of northwest of Taiwan to the upwelling induced by the Kuroshio intrusion (major western boundary current of the Pacific) at the Shelf break. |
| Oceanogr. Notes Chapter 10 (1199 words) |
| wave speed depends on the period, with the longer period waves moving faster than the shorter period waves (and the longer period waves have the longer wave lengths). |
| In contrast to surface waves in which horizontal particle velocities are largest at the surface and either decay quickly with depth (in deep water waves) or are independent of depth (in shallow water waves), horizontal water movement in internal waves is largest near the surface and bottom and minimal at mid-depth. |
| The most common internal waves are of tidal period and manifest themselves in a periodic lifting and sinking of the seasonal and permanent thermocline at tidal rythm. |
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