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Estimate of energy loss from internal solitary waves breaking on slopes
Kateryna Terletska
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Marine and River System Modelling Department, Institute of Mathematical Machine and System Problems, Kyiv 03187, Ukraine
Vladimir Maderich
Marine and River System Modelling Department, Institute of Mathematical Machine and System Problems, Kyiv 03187, Ukraine
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Internal solitary waves (ISWs) emerge in the ocean and seas in various forms and break on the shelf zones in a variety of ways. This results in intensive mixing that affects processes such as biological productivity and sediment transport. Mechanisms of wave interaction with slopes are related to breaking and changing polarity. Our study focuses on wave transformation over idealized shelf-slope topography using a two-layer stratification. Four types of ISW transformation over slopes are shown.
Internal solitary waves (ISWs) emerge in the ocean and seas in various forms and break on the...
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