Trapped continental shelf waves with a free surface

Nonlinear internal waves over New Jersey’s continental shelf

[1] Ship and mooring data collected off the coast of New Jersey are used to describe the nonlinear internal wave (NLIW) field and the background oceanographic conditions that formed the waveguide on the shelf. The subinertial, inertial, and tidal circulation are described in detail, and the background fluid state is characterized using the coefficients of the extendedKorteweg–deVries equation. ...

Temporal coherence of the acoustic field forward propagated through a continental shelf with random internal waves.

An analytical model derived from normal mode theory for the accumulated effects of range-dependent multiple forward scattering is applied to estimate the temporal coherence of the acoustic field forward propagated through a continental-shelf waveguide containing random three-dimensional internal waves. The modeled coherence time scale of narrow band low-frequency acoustic field fluctuations aft...

Monaco: the shallow continental shelf.

Solitary waves on a shelf

or equal to Pc > U(O)*‘, where U(O)* ’ IS the propagation speed of shallow-water waves and Ue is determined by Eq. ( 12). The solitary wave is found by solving a forced Korteweg-de Vries equation. The amplitude of the solitary wave is proportional to the upstream velocity and the downstream elevation is inversely proportional to the upstream velocity. A second branch of solutions of the forced ...

Report of a Physical Oceanography Research Project over the Southern Continental Shelf of the Caspian Sea

Abstract The study presents monthly variations of seawater properties, monitoring water column stability and stratification over the southern shelf of the Caspian Sea which depends on collecting data. Field measurements were carried out during 13 cruises along the southern boundary of the sea. Spatial and temporal distributions of temperature, salinity and density were investigated. Monthl...