Abstract
When fresh water from a small coastal source debouches into a large mass of salt water the buoyancy force causes lateral spreading, and the Coriolis force deflects the light water to the coast. Behind the nose of the intrusion (the “bore”) a geostrophic coastal current is established. The rate of propagation of the bore and the dynamics of non-linear waves on the trailing geostrophic front, are the subjects of this paper.
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Stern, M.E. (1980). Geostrophic Fronts. In: Freeland, H.J., Farmer, D.M., Levings, C.D. (eds) Fjord Oceanography. NATO Conference Series, vol 4. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-3105-6_8
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