The synthetic aperture radar (SAR) image acquired on 23 April 2004 at 03:33 UTC by the Envisat shows the separation of short wavelength internal waves from the westward propagating mode-1 ISW generating from a shallow ridge connecting Batti Malv and Chowra Islands (SBM) of the northern Nicobar Islands, India. To investigate the presence of tailless mode-1 ISWs, several other SAR images near the SBM are analyzed. A particular SAR image captured on 12 October 2007 at 15:53 UTC reveals two different higher-mode ISWs in the path of the mode-1 ISW. Fitting the locations of the ISW signatures onto a time-distance curve shows that one of the higher modes is generated locally, while others are generated from SBM. Using simulations of a nonhydrostatic numerical model SUNTANS, we show that the SBM generated westward propagating mode-1 ISW overtakes the locally generated mode-3 ISW and a mode-2 ISW formed over the SBM in the previous tidal cycle. It is shown that the interaction process of the first mode with higher modes results in the formation of short internal waves trailing behind higher mode waves, pertaining to the resonance between the tail of mode-1 ISW and the higher mode solitary wave. Hence, close to a spring tide, with a combination of SAR images and numerical simulations, we show the dynamical process of westward propagating mode-1 ISW from SBM with the higher modes.
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