Intimate '96: shallow water tomography in the sea of the condemned

• Autor(es): Coelho, Emanuel ; Jesus, S. M. ; Stephan, Yang ; Demoulin, Xavier ; Porter, Michael B.
• Data: 1997
• Identificador Persistente: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.1/5193
• Origem: Sapientia - Universidade do Algarve
• Tipo de Documento: Documento de conferência
• Idioma: Inglês

Descrição

As is well-known, the tidal force of the moon and the sun can cause notable changes in the sea level. Besides this so-called barotropic effect, the tidal force also drives internal waves in a daily rhythm. Thus, the internal wave spectrum is often dominated by a single component with perhaps 10 km from crest to crest. This ‘‘internal tide’’ tends to propagate toward shore and has its greatest height near the shelfbreak.