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Internal tides in the Solomon Sea in contrasted ENSO conditions
Michel Tchilibou
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Laboratoire d'Etude en Géophysique et Océanographie Spatiales (LEGOS), Université de Toulouse, CNES, CNRS, IRD, UPS, Toulouse, France
Lionel Gourdeau
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Laboratoire d'Etude en Géophysique et Océanographie Spatiales (LEGOS), Université de Toulouse, CNES, CNRS, IRD, UPS, Toulouse, France
Florent Lyard
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Laboratoire d'Etude en Géophysique et Océanographie Spatiales (LEGOS), Université de Toulouse, CNES, CNRS, IRD, UPS, Toulouse, France
Rosemary Morrow
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Laboratoire d'Etude en Géophysique et Océanographie Spatiales (LEGOS), Université de Toulouse, CNES, CNRS, IRD, UPS, Toulouse, France
Ariane Koch Larrouy
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Laboratoire d'Etude en Géophysique et Océanographie Spatiales (LEGOS), Université de Toulouse, CNES, CNRS, IRD, UPS, Toulouse, France
Damien Allain
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Laboratoire d'Etude en Géophysique et Océanographie Spatiales (LEGOS), Université de Toulouse, CNES, CNRS, IRD, UPS, Toulouse, France
Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht, Max-Planck-Straße 1, Geesthacht, Germany
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Short summary
This paper focuses on internal tides in the marginal Solomon Sea where LLWBCs transit. The objective is to characterize such internal tides and to give some insights into their impacts on water mass transformation in this area of interest for the global circulation. Results are discussed for two contrasted ENSO conditions with different mesoscale activity and stratification. Such study is motivated by the next altimetric SWOT mission that will be able to observe such phenomena.
This paper focuses on internal tides in the marginal Solomon Sea where LLWBCs transit. The...
