Articles | Volume 24, issue 4
https://doi.org/10.5194/npg-24-645-2017
https://doi.org/10.5194/npg-24-645-2017
Research article
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19 Oct 2017
Research article |  | 19 Oct 2017

Kinematic parameters of internal waves of the second mode in the South China Sea

Oxana Kurkina, Tatyana Talipova, Tarmo Soomere, Ayrat Giniyatullin, and Andrey Kurkin

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Large internal waves may be a great danger to offshore structures. The breaking of such waves may strongly modify the seabed. Their core properties depend on how temperature and salinity vary in the water column. These variations are represented by three vertical locations and four coefficients of the relevant equation. We established how these seven quantities vary in the South China Sea for waves of the second mode (which create compressions or expansions of the intermediate water layer).