Topographic Response of Nearshore Currents to Wind: An Empirical Model
- 1 August 1984
- journal article
- Published by American Meteorological Society in Journal of Physical Oceanography
- Vol. 14 (8) , 1393-1398
- https://doi.org/10.1175/1520-0485(1984)014<1393:tronct>2.0.co;2
Abstract
Observations of winds and currents along the northshore of Lake Ontario are analyzed to evaluate effects of topographic wave propagation on wind-driven currents. Lagged cross-correlations and spectral transfer functions between winds and currents are found to be consistent with the mechanism of resonant topographic-wave response in the presence of bottom friction. Transfer function models in the time domain are shown to explain 70 to 80 percent of the variance of observed currants.Keywords
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