On the reflectance of uniform slopes for normally incident interfacial solitary waves

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 37, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1156-1162

  Bourgault, Daniel ^a   Kelley, Daniel E ^b  

^a MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

^b DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COASTAL ZONES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; PARAMETERIZATION; REFLECTION;

INTERFACIAL SOLITARY WAVES; NONHYDROSTATIC LATERALLY AVERAGED MODEL; SIDEWALL FRICTION; SLOPING BOUNDARIES;

SOLITONS;

NUMERICAL MODEL; PARAMETERIZATION; REFLECTANCE; SOLITARY WAVE;

EID: 34250695957     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JPO3059.1     Document Type: Article

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