Alongslope current generated by obliquely incident internal gravity waves

Details Alongslope current generated by obliquely incident internal gravity waves Alongslope current generated by obliquely incident internal gravity waves

Oct 1998

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1998georl..25.3871d&link_type=abstract

Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 25, Issue 20, p. 3871-3874

Physics

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Oceanography: Physical: Currents, Oceanography: Physical: Internal And Inertial Waves, Oceanography: Physical: Turbulence, Diffusion, And Mixing Processes, Oceanography: Physical: Upper Ocean Processes

Scientific paper

A simple laboratory experiment in stratified salt water demonstrates that an obliquely incident internal gravity wave generates a mean horizontal current when approaching a sloping boundary from above. The alongslope current is in the same direction as the transverse component of wave propagation and coexists with a turbulent bore propagating diagonally up and along the slope. Mean-flow generation is observed for vertical angles of incidence above and below the critical angle as well as for steeper angles in which the viscous dissipation of waves is smaller initially.

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