INTENSIVE INTERNAL WAVES NEAR PACIFIC COA ST OF KAMCHATKA

Direction and wave length of internal tide and form of shortperiod osc illations of thermocline over shelf and continental slope of Kamchatka are determined on the base of oceanographic survey and line temperatu re sensor data. The analysis shows that 1st-2d-mode semidiurnal wave o ver the shelf propagates to the shore without visible disintegration. The internal tide propagating from the shelf break to the open ocean d eforms and disintegrates to groups of soliton-like internal waves that creates visible contrast stripes on the sea surface. This corresponds to numerous airspace observations showing the predominance of the dee p-water manifestations of the internal waves at the Kamchatka continen tal slope as opposed to the most part of other shelf regions where int ernal waves manifest themselves over the shelf.