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Modern Concepts About Oceanic Internal Waves

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This chapter describes the modern concepts about oceanic internal waves. It presents the mathematical formulation of the internal motion in the ocean. Since the book is mainly the result of the experimental analysis of oceanic measurements the processing tools for the measurements of field data are presented here together with the description of the Vlasenko numerical model for the generation, propagation, and dissipation of internal tides. The Garrett and Munk spectral background model is also described because this is important for understanding the internal motion despite the fact that it does not describe internal tides. Mechanisms of internal tide generation are analyzed and general notes on internal wave motion are presented.

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Morozov, E.G. (2018). Modern Concepts About Oceanic Internal Waves. In: Oceanic Internal Tides: Observations, Analysis and Modeling. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-73159-9_1

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