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Trapped diurnal waves on Porcupine and Rockall Banks

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2009

R. D. Pingree  and
D. K. Griffiths
R. D. Pingree
Affiliation:
Institute of Oceanographic Sciences, Wormley, Godalming, Surrey, GU8 5UB
D. K. Griffiths
Affiliation:
The Laboratory, Marine Biological Association, Citadel Hill, Plymouth, PL1 2PB
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Abstract

A numerical model is used to demonstrate wave trapping of the diurnal tides on Porcupine Bank and Rockall Bank. These waves have wave lengths of about 300 km and travel along the sloping topography with shallow water on their right. On the slopes of Porcupine Bank the shorter period K1 wave has a longer wavelength than the O1 wave and so here the trapped diurnal spring-neap signal propagates in a direction which is opposite to the phase velocity.

Type
Research Article
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Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 64 , Issue 4 , November 1984 , pp. 889 - 897
Copyright
Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 1984

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