Abstract: A concise theory for scattering of internal waves at localized inhomogeneities (i.e., topographic features, baroclinicity in the density field, variations of the mean sea level, jetlike currents) in the oceanic waveguide ...

Abstract: The paper presents the WKB theory of internal wave propagation in a large-scale geostrophic mean flow with vertical as well as horizontal shear. As an application a mean flow with isopycnals having constant slope but ...

Abstract: It is shown that spreading of tidal energy across the wave continuum and bottom scattering play no role in the spectral energetics of ocean internal waves.