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Hamiltonian formalism for long internal waves

In this section we develop a Hamiltonian formalism for long internal waves in a rotating environment. We choose to do so progressing through a hierarchy of models, which starts with linear, irrotational shallow water waves in a non-rotating environment, and ends up with fully nonlinear internal waves in a stratified and rotating environment, superimposed on an arbitrary layered distribution of potential vorticity.



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Dr Yuri V Lvov 2007-01-17