Nonhydrostatic Pollard-like internal geophysical waves

Abstract

We present a new exact and explicit Pollard-like solution describing internal water waves representing the oscillation of the thermocline in a nonhydrostatic model. The derived solution is a modification of Pollard's surface wave solution in order to describe internal water waves at general latitudes. The novelty of this model consists in the embodiment of transitional layers beneath the thermocline. We present a Lagrangian analysis of the nonlinear internal water waves and we show the existence of two modes of the wave motion.2010 Mathematics Subject Classification. Primary: 35F50, 76B15; Secondary: 86A05.