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6. We expected to observe similar images in the region of the MK Line. Shown is a synthetic aperture radar (SAR) image of the Columbia River plume on 9 August 2002. The image indicates regions of enhanced surface roughness associated with plume-front and internal wave velocity convergences. SAR image courtesy of P. Orton, T. Sanders and D. Jay; the image was processed at the Alaska Satellite Facility, and is the copyright of the Canadian Space Agency. This image was published by Jonathan D. Nash & James N. Moum (River plumes as a source of large-amplitude internal waves in the coastal ocean) in 2005 in Nature Letters: Vol 437|15 September 2005|doi:10.1038/nature03936.
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