Coastal Oceanography

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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