Nonlinear Internal Tide Generation at the Luzon Strait: Integrating Laboratory Data with Numerics and Observations

Ongoing advances in laboratory experimental techniques have greatly enhanced the ability to obtained detailed spatiotemporal data for internal waves in challenging regimes. The long-term goal of this research is to use the latest experimental techniques to investigate internal wave dynamics relevant to the Luzon Strait in a custom configured wave tank; and to integrate these results with data obtained from numerical simulations, theory and field studies. The principal focus is to determine the generation mechanism for large amplitude solitary waves originating from the Luzon Strait, which is presently undetermined.
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