Abstract
BOOK REVIEW | Baroclinic Tides: Theoretical Modeling and Observational Evidence
Highlights
By Vasiliy Vlasenko, Nataliya Stashchuck, and Kolumban Hutter, Cambridge University Press, 2005, 351 pages, ISBN 0521843952, Hardcover, $120 US
Baroclinic tides have emerged at the forefront of research in physical oceanography as they might provide a link between large-scale circulation and small-scale mixing
For a long time these baroclinic tides were regarded as an odd part of the oceanic internal wave field
Summary
For a long time these baroclinic tides were regarded as an odd part of the oceanic internal wave field Much of this field is a statistically homogeneous and stationary superposition of many waves that have different frequencies and wave numbers and that propagate in all horizontal and vertical directions. Some of these simplified models can be solved analytically, but the book spends much effort to define the limits of these analytic solutions and extend them by numerical means It identifies the three most important parameters of the problem: the ratio of the topographic slope to the slope of the internal wave group velocity, the Froude number, and the critical latitude. Equatorward of it, linear baroclinic tides can propagate as free waves; poleward of it, they cannot All this conceptual knowledge is derived from basic equations using different analytic and numerical tools and substantiated by selected observations.
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