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    Are any coastal internal tides predictable?

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    Date
    2012-06
    Author
    Nash, Jonathan D.  Concept link
    Shroyer, Emily L.  Concept link
    Kelly, Samuel M.  Concept link
    Inall, Mark E.  Concept link
    Duda, Timothy F.  Concept link
    Levine, Murray D.  Concept link
    Jones, Nicole L.  Concept link
    Musgrave, Ruth C.  Concept link
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    Citable URI
    https://hdl.handle.net/1912/5347
    As published
    https://doi.org/10.5670/oceanog.2012.44
    DOI
    10.5670/oceanog.2012.44
    Abstract
    Surface tides are the heartbeat of the ocean. Because they are controlled by Earth's motion relative to other astronomical objects in our solar system, surface tides act like clockwork and generate highly deterministic ebb and flow familiar to all mariners. In contrast, baroclinic motions at tidal frequencies are much more stochastic, owing to complexities in how these internal motions are generated and propagate. Here, we present analysis of current records from continental margins worldwide to illustrate that coastal internal tides are largely unpredictable. This conclusion has numerous implications for coastal processes, as across-shelf exchange and vertical mixing are, in many cases, strongly influenced by the internal wave field.
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    Author Posting. © The Oceanography Society, 2012. This article is posted here by permission of The Oceanography Society for personal use, not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in Oceanography 25, No. 2 (2012): 80-95, doi:10.5670/oceanog.2012.44.
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    Oceanography 25, No. 2 (2012): 80-95
     
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