Abstract
Water is continually in motion at all depths, even when the sea appears perfectly calm and flat. In Chaps. 3–6 of this book, we discussed a specific type of water motion, namely periodic wave motion. Waves can be as small as ripples on the sea surface, and as large as long tidal waves with a wavelength of thousands of kilometres. Waves can travel on the sea surface, or along interfaces dividing water masses of different densities (internal waves). However, in all these cases the water motion is periodic, or can be represented as a sum of periodic motion.
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Massel, S.R. (1999). Ocean Currents. In: Fluid Mechanics for Marine Ecologists. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-60209-2_7
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