On the interaction of short linear internal waves with internal solitary waves

Xu, Chengzhu; Stastna, Marek

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/npg-25-1-2018

Articles | Volume 25, issue 1

https://doi.org/10.5194/npg-25-1-2018

© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Special issue:

Extreme internal wave events

https://doi.org/10.5194/npg-25-1-2018

© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 25, issue 1

Research article

|

17 Jan 2018

Research article |

| 17 Jan 2018

On the interaction of short linear internal waves with internal solitary waves

Chengzhu Xu and Marek Stastna

Download

Final revised paper (published on 17 Jan 2018)
Preprint (discussion started on 12 Sep 2017)

Interactive discussion

Status: closed

AC: Author comment | RC: Referee comment | SC: Short comment | EC: Editor comment

- Printer-friendly version

- Supplement

RC1: 'Review of "On the interaction of short linear waves with internal solitary wave"', Anonymous Referee #1, 08 Oct 2017
EC1: 'comment on “On the interaction of short linear waves with internal solitary waves” by Chengzhu Xu and Marek Stastna', Kateryna Terletska, 12 Oct 2017
RC2: 'Review of On the interaction of short linear waves with internal solitary wave by Xu and Stastna', Anonymous Referee #2, 19 Nov 2017
AC1: 'Authors' response to comments from the editor and referees', Chengzhu Xu, 30 Nov 2017

Peer-review completion

AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision

AR by Chengzhu Xu on behalf of the Authors (30 Nov 2017) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish as is (03 Dec 2017) by Kateryna Terletska

AR by Chengzhu Xu on behalf of the Authors (04 Dec 2017) Manuscript

Short summary

This work contributes to the understanding of the interaction between internal waves of different length scales. A key finding is that, when the disparity in length scales between the participating waves is large, the interaction may lead to an almost complete destruction of the waves that have a relatively smaller length scale. This result suggests that the wavelengths of internal waves observed in the coastal oceans are likely to be deficient in short waves.