MASS TRANSPORT VELOCITY DUE TO TRAIN OF INTERNAL SOLITARY WAVES IN A THREE-LAYER SYSTEM

Mass Transport by Second Mode Internal Solitary Waves

The overall scientific objective of the proposed effort is to improve our understanding of the propagation and mass transport of internal solitary waves (ISW), particularly mode-2 ISW, and their significance for coastal ocean processes. In recent years numerous observations of mode-2 ISW have been reported so that it appears that such waveforms may be more prevalent than previously thought. Lar...

Mass transport and set-ups due to partial standing surface waves in a two-layer viscous system

Shoaling internal solitary waves

[1] The evolution and breaking of internal solitary waves in a shallow upper layer as they approach a constant bottom slope is examined through laboratory experiments. The waves are launched in a two-layer fluid through the standard lock-release method. In most experiments, the wave amplitude is significantly larger than the depth of the shallow upper layer so that they are not well described b...

Internal Solitary Waves

The basic theory of internal solitary waves is reviewed, with the main emphasis on applications to the many observations of such waves in shallow coastal seas, fjords, lakes and in the atmospheric boundary layer. Commencing with the equations of motion for an inviscid, incompressible density-stratified fluid, we describe asymptotic reductions to model long-wave equations, including the well-kno...

Atmospheric Internal Solitary Waves

The solitary waves that have been observed in the atmosphere fall broadly into two classes: those that propagate in a fairly shallow stratified layer near the ground and those that occupy the entire troposphere. We present a survey of the observations of both types of solitary waves. The generation mechanisms differ substantially for these two types of solitary waves. Those that propagate in a ...