Analysis of nonlinear internal waves observed by Landsat thematic mapper

In this work we test the compatibility between the theoretical parameters of a nonlinear wave model and the quantitative information that one can deduce from satellite-derive0 data. The theoretical parameters are obtained by applying an inverse problem to the solution of the Cauchy problem for the Korteweg-de Vries equation. Our results are applied to the case of internal wave patterns elaborated from two different satellite sensors at the south of Messina (the thematic mapper) and at the north of Messina (the synthetic aperture radar).

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