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On the Effect of Bottom Friction on Barotropic Motion Over the Continental Shelf

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  • Observations of the velocity fields over the continental shelf and slope off Oregon and off Peru have shown that there is a phase difference in the onshore-offshore direction, with the velocity fluctuations nearshore leading those offshore in time. It is shown here that the effects of bottom Ekman layer friction and cross-shelf depth variation combine to result in such a phase lag in a model for forced or free long barotropic continental shelf waves. The model also shows that bottom friction results in a smaller phase lag between the alongshore components of velocity and wind stress than that predicted by a frictionless model, a feature found in the observations off Oregon.
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  • Brink, K. H., & Allen, J. S. (1978, September). On the Effect of Bottom Friction on Barotropic Motion Over the Continental Shelf. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 8(5), 919-922.
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  • 8
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  • This research was supported by the Coastal upwelling Ecosystems Analysis Program (CUEA) of the International Decade of Ocean Exploration (IDE) office of the National Science Foundation under Grant OCE76-00596, and also (for J. S. Allen) partially by the Oceanography Section, National Science Foundation, under Grant DES75-15202.
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