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- Title
Dynamics and Energetics of Trapped Diurnal Internal Kelvin Waves around a Midlatitude Island.
- Authors
Masunaga, Eiji; Fringer, Oliver B.; Kitade, Yujiro; Yamazaki, Hidekatsu; Gallager, Scott M.
- Abstract
The generation of trapped and radiating internal tides around Izu-Oshima Island located off Sagami Bay, Japan, is investigated using the three-dimensional Stanford Unstructured Nonhydrostatic Terrain-following Adaptive Navier-Stokes Simulator (SUNTANS) that is validated with observations of isotherm displacements in shallow water. The model is forced by barotropic tides, which generate strong baroclinic internal tides in the study region. Model results showed that when diurnal K1 barotropic tides dominate, resonance of a trapped internal Kelvin wave leads to large-amplitude internal tides in shallow waters on the coast. This resonance produces diurnal motions that are much stronger than the semidiurnal motions. The weaker, freely propagating, semidiurnal internal tides are generated on the western side of the island, where the M2 internal tide beam angle matches the topographic slope. The internal wave energy flux due to the diurnal internal tides is much higher than that of the semidiurnal tides in the study region. Although the diurnal internal tide energy is trapped, this study shows that steepening of the Kelvin waves produces high-frequency internal tides that radiate from the island, thus acting as a mechanism to extract energy from the diurnal motions.
- Subjects
SAGAMI Bay (Japan); INTERNAL waves; OCEAN waves; BAROCLINICITY; NAVIER-Stokes equations; THREE-dimensional imaging
- Publication
Journal of Physical Oceanography, 2017, Vol 47, Issue 10, p2479
- ISSN
0022-3670
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1175/JPO-D-16-0167.1