The degeneration of large-scale interfacial gravity waves in lakes

DOI10.1017/S0022112001003536zbMath1008.76005MaRDI QIDQ2731190

D. A. Horn, Gregory N. Ivey, Jorg Imberger

Publication date: 10 April 2003

Published in: Journal of Fluid Mechanics (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

two-layer modellakesdepth of thermoclinelarge-scale interfacial gravity waveslength-scale ratioswave degeneration

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Hydrology, hydrography, oceanography (86A05) Water waves, gravity waves; dispersion and scattering, nonlinear interaction (76B15)

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