Abstract
The phase pattern of inertia-gravity waves that form a wake in the ocean behind a moving hurricane is investigated using a kinematic theory. In the framework of the model of a two-layer ocean, simple analytical expressions are obtained for phase surfaces (surfaces of the ridges and troughs of wave structure) and the dependence of the semiangle of a wave cone on the speed of the hurricane is determined. It is shown that the observed asymmetry of the wave wake in the horizontal plane may be related to inhomogeneity in the distribution of the Coriolis parameter with latitude.
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