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A note about unsteady currents over a continental shelf Cover

A note about unsteady currents over a continental shelf

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Open Access
|Jan 1982

Abstract

We consider the response of a suddenly imposed wind-stress at the surface of an ocean in a shelf region where the depth vanishes at the coast. When the flow is independent of the co-ordinate along a straight coast-line, a solution is presented in a closed form which reveals a non-uniform space-time behaviour. A case study is presented and comparisons are made with the corresponding numerical solution given by Johnson and Manja.

Language: English
Page range: 199 - 202
Submitted on: May 11, 1981
Accepted on: Aug 27, 1981
Published on: Jan 1, 1982
Published by: Stockholm University Press
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services

© 1982 Einar Wæland, published by Stockholm University Press
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.