Some new aspects of the joint effect of rotation and topography on internal solitary waves.
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https://hdl.handle.net/1912/24437As published
https://doi.org/10.1175/JPO-D-18-0154.1DOI
10.1175/JPO-D-18-0154.1Abstract
Using a recently developed asymptotic theory of internal solitary wave propagation over a sloping bottom in a rotating ocean, some new qualitative and quantitative features of this process are analyzed for internal waves in a two-layer ocean. The interplay between different singularities—terminal damping due to radiation and disappearing quadratic nonlinearity, and reaching an “internal beach” (e.g., zero lower-layer depth)—is discussed. Examples of the adiabatic evolution of a single solitary wave over a uniformly sloping bottom under realistic conditions are considered in more detail and compared with numerical solutions of the variable-coefficient, rotation-modified Korteweg–de Vries (rKdV) equation.
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Author Posting. © American Meteorological Society, 2019. This article is posted here by permission of American Meteorological Society for personal use, not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in Journal of Physical Oceanography 49(6), (2019): 1639-1649, doi: 10.1175/JPO-D-18-0154.1.
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Ostrovsky, L. A., & Helfrich, K. R. (2019). Some new aspects of the joint effect of rotation and topography on internal solitary waves. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 49(6), 1639-1649.Related items
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