The motion of an incompressible fluid confined to a shallow basin witha slightly varying bottom topography is considered. Coriolis force,surface wind and pressure stresses, together with bottom andlateral friction stresses are taken into account. We introduceappropriate scalings into a three-dimensional anisotropic eddyviscosity model; after averaging on the vertical direction andconsidering some asymptotic assumptions, we obtain a two-dimensionalmodel, which approximates the three-dimensional model at the secondorder with respect to the ratio between the vertical scale and thelongitudinal scale. The derived model is shown to be symmetrizablethrough a suitable change of variables. Finally, we propose somenumerical tests with the aim to validate the proposed model.
