Coastal Oceanography

Front Matter....Pages i-ix
On the Dynamics of Coastal Currents....Pages 1-7
Observations of the Alaska Coastal Current....Pages 9-30
Aspects of the Dynamics of the Residual Circulation of the Arabian Gulf....Pages 31-42
Hydrodynamic Model of a Stratified Sea....Pages 43-64
Three Dimensional Models of North Sea Circulation....Pages 65-91
On the Circulation of the Stratified North Sea....Pages 93-111
The State-of-the-Art in Coastal Ocean Modelling: A Numerical Model of Coastal Upwelling off Peru-Including Mixed Layer Dynamics....Pages 113-164
The Currents in a Shallow Coastal Corner Region — the German Bight — Model, Measurements and Forecast....Pages 165-173
Upwellings and Kelvin Waves Generated by Transient Atmospheric Fronts....Pages 175-203
Wind-Forced Shelf Break Upwelling....Pages 205-216
A Seasonal Upwelling Event Observed off the West Coast of British Columbia, Canada....Pages 217-223
Shelf Waves of Diurnal Period Along Vancouver Island....Pages 225-234
Topographic Influences on Coastal Circulation: A Review....Pages 235-252
Topographically Induced Variability in the Baltic Sea....Pages 253-270
An Additional Analysis of Inertial Oscillations on the Continental Shelf....Pages 271-278
Coastal Upwelling, Cyclogenesis and Squid Fishing Near Cape Farewell, New Zealand....Pages 279-310
Whirls in the Norwegian Coastal Current....Pages 311-320
Observations of Instabilities of a Great Lakes Coastal Current....Pages 321-335
Stratified Flow over Sills....Pages 337-362
Subcritical Rotating Channel Flow Across a Ridge....Pages 363-372
Internal Gravity Waves in Sill Fjords: Vertical Modes, Ray Theory and Comparison with Observations....Pages 373-396
Numerical Simulations of Internal Wave Generation in Sill Fjords....Pages 397-410
Two-Year Observations of Coastal-Fjord Interactions in the Strait of Juan De Fuca....Pages 411-426
Water Exchange Between the Sea and Complicated Fjords with Special Reference to the Baltic Water Exchange....Pages 427-437
Shelf-Fjord Exchange on the West Coast of Vancouver Island....Pages 439-450
Considerations of Coastally Forced Flow in a Branched Fjord....Pages 451-473
Some Aspects of Circulation Along the Alaskan Beaufort Sea Coast....Pages 475-497
Low Frequency Fluctuations in the Skagerrak....Pages 499-522
Reduced Gravity Modelling of Outer Oslofjorden....Pages 523-534
On Entrainment in Two-Layer Stratified Flow with Special Focus on an Arctic Sill-Fjord....Pages 535-550
Salt Entrainment and Mixing Processes in an Under-Ice River Plume....Pages 551-564
On Entrainment Observed in Laboratory and Field Experiments....Pages 565-573
Back Matter....Pages 575-582