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A mechanism whereby internal solitary waves can lead to enhanced resuspension in coastal regions is presented. The mechanism involves the creation of a local region of separated flow in the boundary layer under the footprint of a wave. This region is susceptible to a global instability which leads to a coherent dynamics in which gradients in the normal and tangential stresses acting on the bottom surface are increased tenfold. Such increased bottom stresses and the spatio‐temporal character of the flow combine to produce conditions favorable for resuspension.
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Bogucki et al. (1999) studied this question.