Internal Waves on the Continental Margin

Abstract

The long-term goal is to describe and understand the changes that occur in internal waves as they evolve and propagate shoreward over the shelf break into shallow, near-shore waters. The objectives are to carry out fieldwork and to analyze the resulting data for a description of the fields of temperature and of vertical and horizontal velocity in shoaling internal waves with much finer spatial resolution and longer duration than previous descriptions; to use this description to estimate the relative importance of dissipation, wave dispersion, shoaling depth and various types of nonlinearity in shoaling internal waves; to construct a dynamically informed model of the observed wave field suitable for carrying offshore observations to stations nearer the shore and for studying wave induced secondary flows and particle paths. This work will constitute the Ph.D. thesis of graduate student Jim Lerczak.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 30, 1998
Accession Number
ADA537805

Entities

People

  • Clinton D. Winant
  • Myrl C. Hendershott

Organizations

  • Scripps Institution of Oceanography

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Communities of Interest

  • Sensors

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Continental Shelves
  • Continental Slopes
  • Frequency
  • Frequency Bands
  • Information Operations
  • Internal Waves
  • Kinetic Energy
  • Observation
  • Particles
  • Secondary Flow
  • Shallow Water
  • Shores
  • Statistical Analysis
  • Underwater Acoustics
  • Water
  • Waves

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  • Coastal Oceanography