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Propagation of internal gravity waves in fluids with shear flow and rotation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 March 2006

Walter L. Jones
Walter L. Jones
Affiliation:
National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado
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Abstract

In a rotating system, the vertical transport of angular momentum by internal gravity waves is independent of height, except at critical levels where the Doppler-shifted wave frequency is equal to plus or minus the Coriolis frequency. If slow rotation is ignored in studying the propagation of internal gravity waves through shear flows, the resulting solutions are in error only at levels where the Doppler-shifted and Coriolis frequencies are comparable.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 30 , Issue 3 , 29 November 1967 , pp. 439 - 448
Copyright
© 1967 Cambridge University Press

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