Abstract: Janssen?s model for the effect of gustiness on the mean energy transfer from a turbulent wind to a surface wave is simplified through a Gauss?Hermite approximation to his probability integral. Two examples are considered.

Abstract: It is shown that the evolution equations for a triad of weakly damped, resonantly interacting waves are isomorphic to the corresponding equations for undamped waves (and therefore may be integrated in term of elliptic ...

Abstract: A shallow, rotating layer of fluid that supports Rossby waves is subjected to turbulent friction through an Ekman layer at the bottom and is driven by a wave that exerts a shear stress on the upper boundary and for which ...

Abstract: A zonal-wind configuration in which wind speed is proportional to pressure-altitude and stability is proportional to the square of the density is posed. A solution to the eigenvalue problem governing the stability of this ...

Abstract: An approximate solution of the eigenvalue problem governing the stability of the zonal wind with respect to small disturbances of long wavelength is developed for profiles with strong, positive-definite vertical shear. It ...

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Abstract: The one-dimensional reflection of a gravity wave at a discontinuity in bottom slope is calculated from a Green?Liouville (WKB) solution of the mild-slope equation.

Abstract: Laplace's tidal equations are augmented by dissipation in a bottom boundary layer that is intermediate in character between those of Ekman and Stokes. Laplace's tidal equation for a global ocean remains second-order and ...

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Abstract: A variational principle and an associated integral invariant are constructed for two-dimensional (non-divergent) waves of permanent form in a Rossby ?-plane. A solitary-wave solution is obtained, and it is shown that the ...