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Shear flows slightly varying in time and horizontal coordinates are almost always found in the ocean1. Such shear flows are especially pronounced in the seasonal thermocline zone and may strongly influence the internal waves’ dynamics. If a characteristic period of a shear flow variation is considerably greater than the internal waves’ period and the horizontal variations are small, then the flow may be considered to be stationary and horizontally homogeneous.
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Miropol’sky, Y.Z., Shishkina, O.D. (2001). Shear Flow Influence on Internal Waves Propagation. In: Shishkina, O.D. (eds) Dynamics of Internal Gravity Waves in the Ocean. Atmospheric and Oceanographic Sciences Library, vol 24. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-1325-2_5
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