TY - JOUR VL - 25 N1 - © 2013 AIP Publishing LLC A1 - Grimshaw, RHJ A1 - Helfrich, KR A1 - Johnson, ER JF - Physics of Fluids Y1 - 2013/// SN - 1070-6631 TI - Experimental study of the effect of rotation on large amplitude internal waves AV - public N2 - Nonlinear internal waves are commonly observed in the coastal ocean. In the weakly nonlinear long wave régime, they are often modeled by the Korteweg-de Vries equation, which predicts that the long-time outcome of generic localised initial conditions is a train of internal solitary waves. However, when the effect of background rotation is taken into account, it is known from several theoretical and numerical studies that the formation of solitary waves is inhibited, and instead nonlinear wave packets form. In this paper, we report the results from a laboratory experiment at the LEGI-Coriolis Laboratory which describes this process. UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4805092 ID - discovery1392316 ER -