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The evolution of mode-2 internal solitary waves modulated by background shear currents
Peiwen Zhang
Key Laboratory of Ocean Circulation and Waves, Institute of
Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao, 266071, China
University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China
Center for Ocean Mega-Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao,
266071, China
Zhenhua Xu
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Key Laboratory of Ocean Circulation and Waves, Institute of
Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao, 266071, China
Qingdao National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology,
Qingdao, 266071, China
University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China
Center for Ocean Mega-Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao,
266071, China
Qun Li
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Polar Research Institute of China, Shanghai, 200136, China
Baoshu Yin
Key Laboratory of Ocean Circulation and Waves, Institute of
Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao, 266071, China
Qingdao National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology,
Qingdao, 266071, China
University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China
Center for Ocean Mega-Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao,
266071, China
Yijun Hou
Key Laboratory of Ocean Circulation and Waves, Institute of
Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao, 266071, China
Qingdao National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology,
Qingdao, 266071, China
University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China
Center for Ocean Mega-Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao,
266071, China
Antony K. Liu
Ocean University of China, Qingdao, 266100, China
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Short summary
We perform five sets of numerical experiments to examine the evolution processes of mode-2 internal solitary waves (ISWs) modulated by background shear currents. Three distinctly different shear-induced waves were identified as forward-propagating long waves, oscillating tails and amplitude-modulated wave packets. The background shear currents are found to play an important role for the
short-livednature and energy decay process of mode-2 ISWs observed previously by Shroyer et al. (2010).
We perform five sets of numerical experiments to examine the evolution processes of mode-2...
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