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Shoaling on Steep Continental Slopes: Relating Transmission and Reflection Coefficients to Green's Law
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PreprintKAUST Department
Applied Mathematics and Computational Science ProgramComputer, Electrical and Mathematical Science and Engineering (CEMSE) Division
Numerical Mathematics Group
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2019-01-14Permanent link to this record
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The propagation of long waves onto a continental shelf is of great interest in tsunami modeling and other applications where understanding the amplification of waves during shoaling is important. When the linearized shallow water equations are solved with the continental shelf modeled as a sharp discontinuity, the ratio of the amplitudes is given by the transmission coefficient. On the other hand, when the slope is very broad relative to the wavelength of the incoming wave, then amplification is governed by Green's Law, which predicts a larger amplification than the transmission coefficient, and a much smaller amplitude reflection than given by the reflection coefficient of a sharp interface. We explore the relation between these results and elucidate the behavior in the intermediate case of a very steep continental shelf.Citation
Pure Appl. Geophys. (2019)Sponsors
DIK was supported by funding from King Abdullah University of Science and Technology. RJL was supported in part by a subcontract with Science and Technology Corporation (STC) under NASA Contract NNA10DF26C as part of the Asteroid Threat Assessment Project (ATAP).Publisher
Springer NaturearXiv
1901.04148Additional Links
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1901.04148ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1007/s00024-019-02316-y