Origin and Structure of Nearshore Internal Tides and Waves: Data Analysis and Linear Theory.

摘要

Analysis of the data set obtained during the 1996-97 summer and autumn deployments of ADCP and T-logger internal wave antennas of Mission Beach, CA, was the principle activity during the reporting period. The PhD Thesis of Jim Lerczak, completed during the reporting period, set forth the results (subsequently published). The main results are as follows: (1) descriptions of internal (diurnal and semidiurnal) tides and higher frequency internal waves over the slope and shelf with longer time series and with much finer spatial and time resolution than previous descriptions; and (2) understanding where these fields are generated, where they are strongly damped, and how they are made intermittent by lower frequency currents.