Generation process of internal solitary waves (IMAGE)

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Generation process of internal solitary waves

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Isotherms at ten equally spaced times during 2.5 tidal cycles in the standard numerical experiment. The hollow arrows indicate the directions of the tidal currents, and the small red and blue arrows indicate the westward and eastward propagating ISWs, respectively. The insets in (a) – (c) are local enlargements of the isotherms around sill A.

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