A theory for propagation of an oceanic warm front with application to Sagami Bay

Toshio Yamagata

doi:10.3402/tellusa.v32i2.10482

A theory for propagation of an oceanic warm front with application to Sagami Bay

Tellus

Volume 32 (1980): Issue 1

By: Toshio Yamagata

Open Access

|Jan 1980

Abstract

The propagation of an oceanic warm front with a coastal jet is discussed from a viewpoint as a shock wave in a rotating stratified fluid. Postulating mass and potential vorticity conservation, the phase speed of the front and the amplitude of the coastal jet are derived and used to explain the phenomenon of “Kyucho” in Sagami Bay of Japan.

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