Evolution of a shoaling internal solitary wavetrain (original) (raw)

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• Blokhina, M. D. ;
• Mirshak, R. ;
• Kelley, D. E.

Abstract

Field observations of an internal solitary wavetrain impacting a shoaling bottom are presented. Measurements of the spatio-temporal characteristics of the shoaling waves are given, as well as estimations of the mixing they may have caused upon impact. The observations are discussed in the context of numerical simulations, laboratory experiments, and hypotheses recently raised on the origin and evolution of internal solitary waves in coastal environments.

Publication:

Geophysical Research Letters

Pub Date:

February 2007

DOI:

10.1029/2006GL028462

Bibcode:

2007GeoRL..34.3601B

Keywords:

• Oceanography: Physical: Internal and inertial waves;
• Oceanography: Physical: Nearshore processes;
• Oceanography: Physical: Turbulence;
• diffusion;
• and mixing processes (4490)