Talk:Internal wave


 * The internal waves page has great potential -- perhaps we can add some math, and historical discussion of literature, to bring it beyond "stub" status? I have some additions in mind for the future, so please keep an eye out to correct my errors. -- Jbsnively 04:57, 26 July 2007 (UTC)


 * should this page be merged with Internal Gravity Waves?
 * Yes! It was a no-brainer - the first line in this article even calls internal waves gravity waves.--RockMagnetist (talk) 15:44, 14 October 2010 (UTC)

Somewhere in all this we lost the link to Wave Cloud, which links to here. I have put it back. Mrdavenport (talk) 01:47, 16 September 2013 (UTC)

More general definition internal wave
I was a bit surprised to see that this article states that internal waves are always internal gravity waves. I'm quite certain that's incorrect. The two lecture notes I have available on internal waves mainly focus on two types of internal waves: gravital internal waves, and inertial internal waves (driven by rotation), but specify a third driving mechanism: magnetic forces. (Here a link to one of them: https://www.nioz.nl/files/upload/users/258010/book.pdf)

The thing these internal waves have in common is that their stream function is determined by a hyperbolic equation (compared to an elleptical differential equation for surface waves), but I'm not sure whether this is a good definition of an internal wave. Does anyone have a better definition that also includes other forms of internal waves? Femkemilene (talk) 12:43, 30 June 2015 (UTC)