Some new aspects of the joint effect of rotation and topography on internal solitary waves

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Using a recently developed asymptotic theory of internal solitary wave propagation over a sloping bottom in a rotating ocean, some new qualitative and quantitative features of this process are analyzed for internal waves in a two-layer ocean. The interplay between different singularities—terminal damping due to radiation and disappearing quadratic nonlinearity, and reaching an "internal beach" (e.g., zero lower-layer depth)—is discussed. Examples of the adiabatic evolution of a single solitary wave over a uniformly sloping bottom under realistic conditions are considered in more detail and compared with numerical solutions of the variable-coefficient, rotation-modified Korteweg–de Vries (rKdV) equation.

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Ostrovsky, L. A., & Helfrich, K. R. (2019). Some new aspects of the joint effect of rotation and topography on internal solitary waves. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 49(6), 1639–1649. https://doi.org/10.1175/JPO-D-18-0154.1

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