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Witting 1981
Witting, J.M. (1981). A note of Green’s Law. Journal of Geophysical Research 86: doi: 10.1029/JC086iC03p01995. issn: 0148-0227.

Green's Law for the propagation of a linear nondispersive wave in a gradually varying medium conserves energy, which is a quadratic integral property. Green's Law does not conserve linear integral properties, and other waves must arise. This paper treats some general properties that these additional waves must possess for a class that includes long linear water waves in a channel of gradually varying section, The major finding is that both a reflected wave and a re-reflected tail are required to satisfy all of the conservation laws; integral properties of these additional waves are derived.

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