Abstract: Numerical solutions of shallow water flow in a variable-width channel are computed to model the summertime marine atmospheric boundary layer off the U.S. west coast. Using an idealization of the coastline in the vicinity ...

Abstract: Motivated by recent observations along the west coast of the United States, the authors investigate the generation and propagation of coastal-trapped disturbances in the marine atmospheric boundary layer. Analytic solutions ...

Abstract: A recent climatology of observed coastal-trapped disturbances in the marine atmospheric boundary layer along the United States west coast motivates the detailed examination, for a specific form of imposed forcing, of a ...

Abstract: Kinematic models predict that a coherent structure, such as a jet or an eddy, in an unsteady flow can exchange fluid with its surroundings. The authors consider the significance of this effect for a fully nonlinear, ...