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- Intimate '96: shallow water tomography in the sea of the condemnedPublication . Coelho, E.; Jesus, S. M.; Stephan, Y.; Demoulin, X.; Porter, M. B.As is well-known, the tidal force of the moon and the sun can cause notable changes in the sea level. Besides this so-called barotropic effect, the tidal force also drives internal waves in a daily rhythm. Thus, the internal wave spectrum is often dominated by a single component with perhaps 10 km from crest to crest. This ‘‘internal tide’’ tends to propagate toward shore and has its greatest height near the shelfbreak.