The baroclinic response of straits and bays to coastal-trapped wave scattering

Abstract

A result for the conservation of bottom pressure along coastal isobaths is used to show how coastal-trapped wave (CTW) energy may be scattered into baroclinic and barotropic motions within straits and bays. Central to this scattering problem is the decoupling of CTWs and internal Kelvin waves (IKWs) for broad flat shelves where the former are shown to be either barotropic at the coast or trapped out on the shelf slope and break. -from Author