Topographic Waves in Channels and Lakes on the f-Plane - Stocker, Thomas; Hutter, Kolumban; SpringerLink (Online service) (Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 1987)
1. Introduction -- 1.1 Preamble -- 1.2 Waves in waters -- 1.3 Observations - Their interpretations -- 1.4 Aim of this work -- 2. Governing equations -- 2.1 Equations of adiabatic fluid flow -- 2.2 Vorticity, potential vorticity, topographic Rossby waves -- 2.3 Baroclinic coupling - the two-layer model -- 2.4 Continuous stratification -- 2.5 TW-equation in orthogonal coordinate systems -- 3. Some known solutions of the TW-equation in various domains -- 3.1 Circular basin with parabolic bottom -- 3.2 Circular basin with a power-law bottom profile -- 3.3 Elliptic basin with parabolic bottom -- 3.4 Elliptic basin with exponential bottom -- 3.5 Topographic waves in infinite domains -- 4. The Method of Weighted Residuals -- 4.1 Application to the TW-equation -- 4.2 Symmetrization -- 5. Topographic waves in infinite channels -- 5.1 Basic concept -- 5.2 Dispersion relation -- 5.3 Channel solutions -- 5.4 Velocity profiles -- 5.5 Alternative solution procedures -- 5.6 Hyperbolically curved channels -- 6. Topographic waves in rectangular basins -- 6.1 Crude lake model -- 6.2 Lake model with non-constant thalweg -- 7. Reflection of topographic waves -- 7.1 Reflection at a vertical wall -- 7.2 Reflection at an exponential shore -- 7.3 Reflection at a sin2-shore -- 8. Review and outlook: Review and outlook: Restrictions of this study - A list of unsolved problems -- 8.1 A brief summary -- 8.2 Validity of TW-equations -- 8.3 Single or multivalued dispersion relation -- 8.4 Bay-type modes -- 8.5 A list of unsolved problems -- 8.6 Measurements, observations -- Appendix A -- Appendix B -- Appendix C -- References -- Author Index.
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