Highly nonlinear internal solitary waves over the continental shelf of the northwestern South China Sea

Zhenhua Xu; Baoshu Yin; Yijun Hou

doi:10.1007/s00343-010-9018-1

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Highly nonlinear internal solitary waves over the continental shelf of the northwestern South China Sea

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- Highly nonlinear internal solitary waves over the continental shelf of the northwestern South China Sea
- Highly nonlinear internal solitary waves over the continental shelf of the northwestern South China Sea
- 海洋湖沼学报（英文） 2010年28卷第5期页码：1049-1054
- Affiliations：
  
  1. Institute of Oceanology Chinese Academy of Sciences
  2. Key Laboratory of Ocean Circulation and Waves (KLOCAW) Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Author bio：
- Funds：
  
  Supported by the Knowledge Innovation Program of Chinese Academy of Sciences (No. KZCX1-YW-12);the National High Technology Research and Development Program of China (863 program) (No. 2008AA09A401, No. 2006AA09A109)
- DOI：10.1007/s00343-010-9018-1
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- 网络首发：2010-09-11，
  
  纸质出版：2010
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Highly nonlinear internal solitary waves over the continental shelf of the northwestern South China Sea[J]. 海洋湖沼学报（英文）, 2010,28(5):1049-1054.

Xu, Z., Yin, B. & Hou, Y. Highly nonlinear internal solitary waves over the continental shelf of the northwestern South China Sea., Chin. J. Ocean. Limnol. 28, 1049–1054 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00343-010-9018-1
Highly nonlinear internal solitary waves over the continental shelf of the northwestern South China Sea[J]. 海洋湖沼学报（英文）, 2010,28(5):1049-1054. DOI： 10.1007/s00343-010-9018-1.

Xu, Z., Yin, B. & Hou, Y. Highly nonlinear internal solitary waves over the continental shelf of the northwestern South China Sea., Chin. J. Ocean. Limnol. 28, 1049–1054 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00343-010-9018-1 DOI：

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Large amplitude internal solitary waves (ISWs) often exhibit highly nonlinear effects and may contribute significantly to mixing and energy transporting in the ocean. We observed highly nonlinear ISWs over the continental shelf of the northwestern South China Sea (19°35′N

112°E) in May 2005 during the Wenchang Internal Wave Experiment using in-situ time series data from an array of temperature and salinity sensors

and an acoustic Doppler current profiler (ADCP). We summarized the characteristics of the ISWs and compared them with those of existing internal wave theories. Particular attention has been paid to characterizing solitons in terms of the relationship between shape and amplitude-width. Comparison between theoretical prediction and observation results shows that the high nonlinearity of these waves is better represented by the second-order extended Korteweg-de Vries (KdV) theory than the first-order KdV model. These results indicate that the northwestern South China Sea (SCS) is rich in highly nonlinear ISWs that are an indispensable part of the energy budget of the internal waves in the northern South China Sea.

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