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Evolution of a shoaling internal solitary wavetrain
Author(s) -
Bourgault D.,
Blokhina M. D.,
Mirshak R.,
Kelley D. E.
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
geophysical research letters
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.007
H-Index - 273
eISSN - 1944-8007
pISSN - 0094-8276
DOI - 10.1029/2006gl028462
Subject(s) - shoaling and schooling , context (archaeology) , internal wave , geology , mixing (physics) , kondratiev wave , geophysics , mechanics , physics , oceanography , paleontology , quantum mechanics
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.