Internal Solitary Waves in the Brazilian SE Continental Shelf: Observations by Synthetic Aperture Radar

Table 1

ISWs main characteristics in the SECS obtained from SAR imagery.

	Mean	Std. Deviation	Maximum	Minimun
Wind speed over ISWs (ms^−1)	4.4	2.1	11.43	0.66
Local depth of occurrence (m)	111	51	509	14
Direction of propagation (degrees)	319	—	—	—
ISW propagation speed (ms^−1)	0.64	0.16	1.04	0.32
Wave crest length (km)	43.5	28	152.5	10.5
Wavelength 1st soliton (km)	1.04	0.44	2.36	0.3
Wavelength 2nd soliton (km)	0.9	0.42	2.11	0.22
Wavelength 3rd soliton (km)	0.85	0.37	1.7	0.32
Wavelength of Internal Tide (km)	28.6	6.94	46.57	14.4