Observations of Internal Waves on an Oceanic Boundary Slope Without a Shelf Region (Hawaiian Islands)
Abstract
Our long-term goal is to describe and understand spatial variations of the internal wave field near topography. Our principal suppositions are that variations in the energy, frequency content and wavenumber content of the internal wave field near topography will be related to spatial differences of environmental parameters such as distance to the boundary, slope magnitude and/or curvature, buoyancy frequency, and so on, as well as to the propensity of the boundary configuration to support trapped oscillations that propagate freely only along the boundary (such as edge and Kelvin waves). Our objective is to test these suppositions with in situ measurements of the current and temperature fields.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Sep 30, 1998
- Accession Number
- ADA539874
Entities
People
- Douglas S. Luther
- Mark A. Merrifield
Organizations
- University of Hawaiʻi System