Shelf waves

From Glossary of Meteorology



shelf waves

Topographic waves generated over a shelf, typically by the wind acting in the presence of a coastal boundary.

For an observer traveling with the wave, the coast is on the right in the Northern Hemisphere and on the left in the Southern Hemisphere.
See also coastally trapped waves, Kelvin wave.


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