TY  - JOUR
IS  - 4
N1  - This article is an open access
article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution
(CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
AV  - public
Y1  - 2018/11/20/
VL  - 3
TI  - The effect of a variable background density stratification and current on oceanic internal solitary waves
A1  - Liu, Z
A1  - Grimshaw, R
A1  - Johnson, E
KW  - Internal solitary waves; Korteweg?de Vries equation; background currents
JF  - Fluids
UR  - https://doi.org/10.3390/fluids3040096
SN  - 2311-5521
N2  - Large amplitude, horizontally propagating internal waves are commonly observed in the coastal ocean. They are often modelled by a variable-coefficient Korteweg-de Vries equation to take account of a horizontally varying background state. Although this equation is now well-known, a term representing non-conservative effects, arising from horizontal variation in the underlying basic state density stratification and current, has often been omitted. In this paper, we examine the possible significance of this term using climatological data for several typical oceanic sites where internal waves have been observed.
ID  - discovery10072240
ER  -