Abstract: Originally prompted by a desire to search for theoretically predicted ?coastal jets,? an extensive series of observations on currents in the coastal zone near Oshawa, in Lake Ontario, were carried out during 1969 and 1970. ...

Abstract: Field observations on coastal currents near Oshawa on the north shore of Lake Ontario during summer and fall are described. The technique of observations (flag-station chain) has been given in Part I, together with a ...

Abstract: The response of a simple Great Lake model to wind stress is studied theoretically. The model is of constant depth and of circular shape, continuously stratified with a thermocline region of linear density distribution. The ...

Abstract: In a two-layer model of stratified fluid flow, motions in the internal mode are governed by the distribution of an equivalent depth he. For a typical continental shelf, the distribution of he with distance from shore may ...

Abstract: Water motion in the barotropic mode, directly forced by suddenly imposed wind stress, is investigated in basins with arbitrary topography, but paying special attention to long basins, in which the depth contours run parallel ...

Abstract: The generation by unsteady winds of standing oscillations on the pycnocline of lakes and enclosed seas, which are much longer than they are wide, is studied on the assumption that end effects are negligible. The approach ...

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Abstract: The wind-driven flow in the mixed layer between the free surface and the top stable sheet of a thermocline is usually turbulent. The frictional component of such a flow may be separated from a depth-independent general ...

Abstract: We study below with the aid of linearized equations, but using a quadratic bottom friction law, the barotropic forced (aperiodic) response to wind stress or external pressure gradient of various simple continental shelf ...

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