Internal wave breaking and dissipation mechanisms on the continental slope/shelf

KG Lamb - Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics, 2014 - annualreviews.org
Internal waves are important physical phenomena on the continental shelf/slope. They are
often very energetic, and their breaking provides an important dissipation and mixing …

Internal waves, an under-explored source of turbulence events in the sedimentary record

L Pomar, M Morsilli, P Hallock, B Bádenas - Earth-Science Reviews, 2012 - Elsevier
Internal waves occur nearly ubiquitously in lakes and oceans yet their sedimentary records
remain largely unrecognized. Waves propagate at the interface between fluids of different …

The influence of channel deepening on estuarine turbidity levels and dynamics, as exemplified by the Ems estuary

VN de Jonge, HM Schuttelaars… - Estuarine, Coastal and …, 2014 - Elsevier
Active deepening of tidal channels usually results in the alteration of the vertical and the
horizontal tide. This may lead to concurrent significant increases in mean suspended matter …

[HTML][HTML] Energetics of barotropic and baroclinic tides in the Monterey Bay area

D Kang, O Fringer - Journal of Physical Oceanography, 2012 - journals.ametsoc.org
A detailed energy analysis of the barotropic and baroclinic M 2 tides in the Monterey Bay
area is performed. The authors first derive a theoretical framework for analyzing internal tide …

Sediment resuspension and nepheloid layers induced by long internal solitary waves shoaling orthogonally on uniform slopes

D Bourgault, M Morsilli, C Richards, U Neumeier… - Continental Shelf …, 2014 - Elsevier
Two-dimensional, nonlinear and nonhydrostatic field-scale numerical simulations are used
to examine the resuspension, dispersal and transport of mud-like sediment caused by the …

Breaking of shoaling internal solitary waves

P Aghsaee, L Boegman, KG Lamb - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2010 - cambridge.org
The breaking of fully nonlinear internal solitary waves of depression shoaling upon a
uniformly sloping boundary in a smoothed two-layer density field was investigated using …

A new computational framework for multi‐scale ocean modelling based on adapting unstructured meshes

MD Piggott, GJ Gorman, CC Pain… - … Methods in Fluids, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
A new modelling framework is presented for application to a range of three‐dimensional
(3D) multi‐scale oceanographic problems. The approach is based upon a finite element …

Nearshore internal bores and turbulent mixing in southern Monterey Bay

RK Walter, CB Woodson, RS Arthur… - Journal of …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
We observed transient stratification and mixing events associated with nearshore internal
bores in southern Monterey Bay using an array of instruments with high spatial and temporal …

Toarcian black shales in the Dutch Central Graben: record of energetic, variable depositional conditions during an oceanic anoxic event

J Trabucho-Alexandre, R Dirkx… - Journal of …, 2012 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The environmental conditions, mechanisms, and processes that resulted in the deposition of
organic-matter-rich sediments during the early Toarcian oceanic anoxic event are still a …

Flow separation and resuspension beneath shoaling nonlinear internal waves

L Boegman, GN Ivey - Journal of Geophysical Research …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Laboratory observations are presented showing the structure and dynamics of the turbulent
bottom boundary layer beneath nonlinear internal waves (NLIWs) of depression shoaling …