Scattering of gravity waves by potential vorticity in a shallow-water fluid

DOI10.1017/S0022112010003721MaRDI QIDQ3075857zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Marshall L. Ward, William K. Dewar

Publication date 17 February 2011

Published in Journal of Fluid Mechanics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022112010003721

zbMATH Keywords

ocean processesquasi-geostrophic flowswave-turbulence interactions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Water waves, gravity waves; dispersion and scattering, nonlinear interaction (76B15) Hydrology, hydrography, oceanography (86A05)

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• Internal wave—vortical mode interactions in strongly stratified flows
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• Nonlinear theory of geostrophic adjustment. I: Rotating shallow-water model.
• On the dynamics of unsteady gravity waves of finite amplitude Part 1. The elementary interactions
• Stratified turbulence generated by internal gravity waves

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• An asymptotic model for the propagation of oceanic internal tides through quasi-geostrophic flow
• Frequency diffusion of waves by unsteady flows
• Geophysical turbulence dominated by inertia-gravity waves
• Wave-vortex interactions, remote recoil, the Aharonov-Bohm effect and the Craik-Leibovich equation
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• Upscale transfer of waves in one-dimensional rotating shallow water
• Wave scattering by an isolated cyclogeostrophic vortex
• The turbulent cascade of inertia-gravity waves in rotating shallow water

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