Internal Gravity Waves in the Shallow Seas [Paperback]

This?book contains a comprehensive study of the internal ocean waves, which?play?a very important role in ocean physics providing mechanisms for ocean water mixing and circulation, as well?as the transportation of?gases, nutrients, and a very large number of marine organisms in the ocean body.
In contrast to surface waves, the literature on internal waves is not so numerous, mainly?due to the difficulties in experimental data collection and?in the mathematical description of internal wave propagation.
In this book, the basic mathematical principles, a physical description of the observed phenomena, and practical theoretical methods of determination of wave parameters as well as the original method of observation using moving sensors?are presented. Special attention is paid to?internal wave propagation over changing bottom topographies in shallow seas such as the Baltic Sea.
The book is supplemented with an extended list of relevant and extended bibliographies, a subject index, and an author index.Introducing Internal Waves.- Internal Waves in Two-layer Sea.-Waves in a Continuously Strati
ed Sea of Constant Water Depth.- Waves in a Continuously Strati
ed Sea of Varying Depth.-Generation of Internal Waves.- Spectral Properties of Internal Waves.- Internal Waves in the Baltic Sea.This?book contains a comprehensive study of the internal ocean waves, which?play?a very important role in ocean physics providing mechanisms for ocean water mixing and circulation, as well?as the transportation of?gases, nutrients, and a very large number of marine organisms in the ocean body.
In contrast to surface waves, the literature on internal waves is not so numerous, mainly?due to the difficulties in experimental data collection and?in the mathematical description of internal wave propagation.
In this book, the basic mathematical principles, a physical description of the observed phenomena, and practical theoretical methods of determinatiolC5