Kelvin-wave coastal amplitude scaling

ID: kelvin-wave-coastal-amplitude-scaling

For a harmonic coastal Kelvin wave, , and the offshore decay length is . Integrating the period-mean pressure-work flux over the offshore direction gives for peak coastal amplitude . Slow changes with negligible dissipation or scattering conserve this flux, giving . The changing mode width explains why depth scaling differs from fixed-width wave shoaling. The approximation is not uniform at the equator.

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