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The buoyancy frequency is never really constant. Indeed, in the ocean there is a significant variation of N from top to bottom. Figure 9.1 (next page) from the Levitus Atlas (1982) shows the distribution of N of the zonally averaged global ocean.
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Gill AE (1982) Atmosphere-ocean dynamics. Academic Press, Harcourt Brace & Co., San Diego, pp 662 (especially Chapter 6)
Levitus S (1982) Climatological atlas of the World Ocean. U.S. Dept. of Commerce, US. Government Printing Office, pp 173
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Pedlosky, J. (2003). WKB Theory for Internal Gravity Waves. In: Waves in the Ocean and Atmosphere. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-05131-3_9
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