Abstract: The authors have demonstrated that a large amplitude, nearly stationary solitary wave can be induced either by direct resonant forcing or by the capture of a traveling wave over the forcing region, using a two-layer model ...

Abstract: The resonant interaction of a longshore baroclinic current with a topographic feature is investigated, using a quasi-geostrophic two-layer model, where the lower layer is assumed to be deep but is not stagnant. In this ...

Abstract: It is shown that the interaction of long, weakly nonlinear, quasigeostrophic baroclinic waves can be described by a pair of linearly coupled Korteweg?de Vries equations. Baroclinic energy conversion is investigated as the ...

Abstract: It is shown that the influence of topography on the interaction of long, weakly nonlinear, quasigeostrophic baroclinic waves can be described by a pair of linearly coupled Korteweg?de Vries equations, with a forcing term ...

Abstract: In this paper, the effects of bottom and interfacial friction on localized baroclinic instability are discussed in the weakly nonlinear, long-wave limit. Using a quasigeostrophic two-layer model in which the lower layer ...

Abstract: The authors use numerical simulations of the shallow-water equations to study the generation of coastally trapped waves by localized forcing mechanisms. The model parameters are chosen to be typical for coastal ocean ...

Abstract: The disintegration of a first-mode internal tide into shorter solitary-like waves is considered. Since observations frequently show both tides and waves with amplitudes beyond the restrictions of weakly nonlinear theory, ...

Abstract: here are now several observations of internal solitary waves passing through a critical point where the coefficient of the quadratic nonlinear term in the variable coefficient Korteweg?de Vries equation changes sign, ...

Abstract: In 1983 Tropical Cyclone Jane crossed the North West Coast of Australia generating a storm surge. Currents associated with this storm surge were recorded at two offshore moorings south of the cyclone track. The data from ...

Abstract: An analytical model is developed for nondivergent barotropic flow in a rectangular region, with depth contours parallel to the longshore boundary. The model is linear, with flow forced by wind stress and subject to dissipation ...