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On trapped waves over a continental shelf

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 March 2006

John M. Huthnance
John M. Huthnance
Affiliation:
Department of Oceanography, University of Liverpool
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Abstract

Any straight continental shelf of monotonic depth profile is shown to have as its entire complement of barotropic trapped modes (i) an infinite discrete set of ‘continental-shelf waves’, (ii) a single ‘Kelvin wave’, and (iii) an infinite discrete set of ‘edge waves’. The decomposition of energy density and fluxes into modal constituents is discussed.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 69 , Issue 4 , 24 June 1975 , pp. 689 - 704
Copyright
© 1975 Cambridge University Press

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