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Modeling Of Advective Solute Transport In Sandy Sediments Inhabited By The Lugworm Arenicola Marina, Karen Timmermann, Jan H. Christensen, Gary T. Banta Jan 2002

Modeling Of Advective Solute Transport In Sandy Sediments Inhabited By The Lugworm Arenicola Marina, Karen Timmermann, Jan H. Christensen, Gary T. Banta

Journal of Marine Research

Irrigation by the lugworm Arenicola marina has a major impact on solute transport and distributions in nearshore environments due to the subsurface injection of overlying water at depth (typically 15-20 cm) and the resulting advective water flow within the sediment back toward the sediment surface. A mechanistic one-dimensional diffusion and advection model which emphasizes the injection and advective transport of solutes within the sediment not described in previous irrigation models was developed to describe irrigation by A. marina. The model was verified by comparing its results to measured pore-water tracer (Br) profiles and it is concluded that the model …

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Structure Of The Internal Boundary Layer Over A Patch Of Pinnid Bivalves (Atrina Zelandica) In An Estuary, Vladimir Nikora, Malcolm O. Green, Simon F. Thrush, Terry M. Hume, Derek Goring Jan 2002

Structure Of The Internal Boundary Layer Over A Patch Of Pinnid Bivalves (Atrina Zelandica) In An Estuary, Vladimir Nikora, Malcolm O. Green, Simon F. Thrush, Terry M. Hume, Derek Goring

Journal of Marine Research

Measurements of tidal-current boundary-layer flow over an experimental 2-m by 2-m patch of pinnid bivalves (Atrina zelandica) in a northern New Zealand estuary are presented. Previous work demonstrated a link between "mesoscale" (order 100 m) patchiness of the benthic biota and time-averaged boundary-layer dynamics. The aim in this new experiment was to describe the three-dimensional structure of turbulence at the patch scale (order 1 m). Flow over three densities of Atrina was investigated: 340 individuals per 4 m2, 50 individuals per 4 m2 and zero individuals. An internal boundary layer (IBL) grows downstream from the …

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Physical And Biogeochemical Fluxes And Net Budgets In The Subpolar And Temperate North Atlantic, Marta Álvarez, Harry L. Bryden, Fiz F. Pérez, Aida F. Ríos, Gabriel Rosón Jan 2002

Physical And Biogeochemical Fluxes And Net Budgets In The Subpolar And Temperate North Atlantic, Marta Álvarez, Harry L. Bryden, Fiz F. Pérez, Aida F. Ríos, Gabriel Rosón

Journal of Marine Research

A transoceanic hydrographic section across the North Atlantic Subpolar gyre from Vigo (northwestern Iberian Peninsula) to Cape Farewell (south of Greenland) was sampled in summer 1997 as part of the World Ocean Circulation Experiment program (WOCE A25, 4x cruise). The circulation pattern across the 4x section is diagnosed using inverse methods. The flow is constrained with measured mass transports at specific sites, while conserving mass and salt for the region north of the section and forcing the silicate flux to a reasonable value. The fluxes of physical (heat and freshwater) and chemical (nutrients and oxygen) properties are estimated and decomposed …

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Mixing In The Surface Waters Of The Western Bay Of Bengal Using 228ra And 226ra, R. Rengarajan, M. M. Sarin, B. L. K. Somayajulu, R. Suhasini Jan 2002

Mixing In The Surface Waters Of The Western Bay Of Bengal Using 228ra And 226ra, R. Rengarajan, M. M. Sarin, B. L. K. Somayajulu, R. Suhasini

Journal of Marine Research

228Ra and 226Ra have been measured in the surface waters of the western Bay of Bengal during five cruises conducted between 1988 and 1999. The ranges and mean (given in brackets) concentrations for 228Ra and 226Ra are 6.8-42.1 (17.8 ± 7.9) dpm/100 kg and 6.0-16.7 (9.2 ± 2.2) dpm/ 100 kg, respectively. (228Ra/226Ra) Activity Ratio (henceforth denoted as [228/226]) ranges from 0.8 to 3.4 with a mean of 1.9 ± 0.5. Both 228Ra and 226Ra show inverse correlation with salinity, the former much stronger. A surface 2-D diffusion-advection model is …

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Renewal Time And Transport Of Unventilated Central Intermediate Water Of The Weddell Sea Derived From Biogeochemical Properties, Mario Hoppema, Hein J. W. De Baar, Eberhard Fahrbach, Richard G. J. Bellerby Jan 2002

Renewal Time And Transport Of Unventilated Central Intermediate Water Of The Weddell Sea Derived From Biogeochemical Properties, Mario Hoppema, Hein J. W. De Baar, Eberhard Fahrbach, Richard G. J. Bellerby

Journal of Marine Research

We have investigated the intermediate water mass of the central Weddell Gyre using TCO2 and oxygen data of FS Polarstern cruises in 1992, 1996 and 1998. This water mass, designated as Central Intermediate Water (CIW), is enriched in CO2 and depleted in O2 relative to its source water due to biological degradation. CO2 enrichment and O2 depletion were quantified by calculating the difference between the concentrations in the CIW and those in the more southern source water, the Circumpolar Deep Water, which derives from the Antarctic Circumpolar Current. Inventories of enrichment and depletion were determined …

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Transport And Digestive Alteration Of Uniformly 13c-Labeled Diatoms In Mudflat Sediments, Carrie J. Thomas, Neal E. Blair Jan 2002

Transport And Digestive Alteration Of Uniformly 13c-Labeled Diatoms In Mudflat Sediments, Carrie J. Thomas, Neal E. Blair

Journal of Marine Research

Uniformly 13C-labeled diatoms were used to elucidate the effect deposit feeders have on the distribution and composition of phytodetritus within the seabed. Mudflat infauna contained in microcosms reacted quickly to the emplacement of labeled diatoms onto the sediment-water interface by moving the phytodetritus nonlocally during feeding and hoeing activities. Although redistribution of tracer was rapid, not all infauna exposed to the tracer ingested it. Using four species of deposit-feeding annelids that had ingested the 13C-labeled phytodetritus during the microcosm experiment, molecular-level, digestive alterations of 13C-labeled diatoms were documented. Fecal material produced by the deposit feeders had 13 …

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Tracing Amazon River Water Into The Caribbean Sea, Ferdi L. Hellweger, Arnoldo L. Gordon Jan 2002

Tracing Amazon River Water Into The Caribbean Sea, Ferdi L. Hellweger, Arnoldo L. Gordon

Journal of Marine Research

Monthly Amazon River discharge is correlated to historical monthly sea surface salinity (SSS) in the western tropical Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean Sea. At Barbados a very high inverse correlation (R2 = 0.92) exists if the discharge is lagged by two months, which corresponds to the travel time from the Amazon mouth to Barbados. Due to its proximity to Barbados, a small amount of the correlation can also be attributed to the Orinoco River. Between Barbados and the central Caribbean Sea (75W) the peak correlation of Amazon River discharge and SSS occurs at progressively longer lag times, representing …

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Meridional Transport In The Indian Ocean Traced By Coral Radiocarbon, Nancy S. Grumet, Thomas P. Guilderson, Robert B. Dunbar Jan 2002

Meridional Transport In The Indian Ocean Traced By Coral Radiocarbon, Nancy S. Grumet, Thomas P. Guilderson, Robert B. Dunbar

Journal of Marine Research

Ocean circulation in the Indian Ocean is predominantly driven by the monsoon and is responsible for convergence along the equator. As a result, upwelling is primarily restricted to the western boundary where surface waters are anomalously depleted in 14C. Here, we describe aspects of western boundary upwelling based on insights derived from the first coral radiocarbon time-series in the Indian Ocean. The absence of a distinct subannual pre-bomb Δ14C signal suggests that open and coastal upwelling are negligible off the coast of Kenya. Instead, our results suggest that upwelling from the coast of Somalia and possibly Oman …

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Flume Experiments On Post-Settlement Movement In Polychaetes, Karen I. Stocks Jan 2002

Flume Experiments On Post-Settlement Movement In Polychaetes, Karen I. Stocks

Journal of Marine Research

The ability of benthic polychaetes to move as adults and juveniles was examined using flume experiments. The main question asked was whether post-settlement movement is a passive process predictable from the hydrodynamic characteristics of the environment and the individual, or whether active behavior is involved. In one set of experiments, the percent of individuals moving during a six-hour period in low-food conditions was compared among five species of intertidal polychaetes. Flow speed was set at a velocity that did not cause sediment erosion but did cause bedload transport of anesthetized individuals. Species varied significantly in percent of movement, with Laeonereis …

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Cross-Frontal Entrainment Of Plankton Into A Buoyant Plume: The Frog Tongue Mechanism, Robert D. Hetland, Dennis J. Mcgillicuddy Jr., Richard P. Signell Jan 2002

Cross-Frontal Entrainment Of Plankton Into A Buoyant Plume: The Frog Tongue Mechanism, Robert D. Hetland, Dennis J. Mcgillicuddy Jr., Richard P. Signell

Journal of Marine Research

A mechanism for the cross-frontal entrainment of plankton by a buoyant plume influenced by wind stress is described and tested using an idealized numerical model. Under the right circumstances, plankton may enter a buoyant plume during an upwelling wind stress, then be transported shoreward during a subsequent downwelling wind stress. In order for the plankton to enter the plume, they must swim upward at a velocity (wp) bounded by Hplume/T < wp < κ/ Hmix where Hplume is the thickness of the buoyant plume, Hmix is the thickness of the upper oceanic mixed layer …

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Internal Gravity Wave Frequencies And Wavenumbers From Single Point Measurements Over A Slope, S. A. Thorpe, L. Umlauf Jan 2002

Internal Gravity Wave Frequencies And Wavenumbers From Single Point Measurements Over A Slope, S. A. Thorpe, L. Umlauf

Journal of Marine Research

It is shown that information about the intrinsic frequency of internal inertial gravity waves, together with their vector wavenumber and their steepness spectrum, may be derived using data from a meter recording current and temperature just above a uniform sloping boundary. The analysis assumes that, over the periods of time in which estimates are made, the local mean buoyancy frequency, N, and temperature gradient are uniform, and the bottom slope, α, is constant over the scale of the observed waves and is known. It is further assumed that, during short periods of analysis, the internal wave field is dominated …

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Water Masses And Baroclinic Transports In The South Atlantic And Southern Oceans, Karen J. Heywood, Brian A. King Jan 2002

Water Masses And Baroclinic Transports In The South Atlantic And Southern Oceans, Karen J. Heywood, Brian A. King

Journal of Marine Research

We describe the World Ocean Circulation Experiment (WOCE) A23 hydrographic section from Antarctica to Brazil, nominally along 35W. The section crossed the center of the Weddell Gyre, the Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC) and the Subtropical Gyre in the Argentine Basin. We precisely define the locations of fronts, the changes in water mass properties across them, and their transports. The Antarctic Slope Front was crossed above the continental slope of Antarctica, with a baroclinic transport of 4 Sv, part of the cyclonic Weddell Gyre circulation of 19 Sv. We repeated a section in the Weddell Sea occupied in 1973, and saw …

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Recent Turbidite Deposition In The Eastern Atlantic: Early Diagenesis And Biotic Recovery, P. Anschutz, F. J. Jorissen, G. Chaillou, R. Abu-Zied, C. Fontanier Jan 2002

Recent Turbidite Deposition In The Eastern Atlantic: Early Diagenesis And Biotic Recovery, P. Anschutz, F. J. Jorissen, G. Chaillou, R. Abu-Zied, C. Fontanier

Journal of Marine Research

An interface core taken in Capbreton canyon shows a succession of sedimentary facies interpreted as classical Bouma turbiditic sequences. Activities of 234Th and 210Pb suggest that the deposition of the most recent turbidite was triggered by the violent storm that affected the Atlantic coast of southern France on the 27th of December 1999, about four months before the sampling of the core. This turbidite allows us to study the ongoing diagenesis of the new sediment layer and of the previous sediment-water interface, which has been buried and only slightly eroded. A study of benthic foraminiferal populations informs …

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Fe Redox Cycling In Iberian Continental Margin Sediments (Ne Atlantic), Claar Van Der Zee, Wim Van Raaphorst, Willem Helder Jan 2002

Fe Redox Cycling In Iberian Continental Margin Sediments (Ne Atlantic), Claar Van Der Zee, Wim Van Raaphorst, Willem Helder

Journal of Marine Research

In this paper, data are presented on the vertical distribution of pore water Fe2+, ferrozine-extractable Fe2+ and solid phase Fe in sediments along four across-slope transects including the Nazarécanyon at the Iberian margin. Sorbed Fe2+ cannot be measured directly and is operationally defined as the fraction that can be extracted with ferrozine. Our objectives were (1) to investigate the potential role of Fe2+ sorption in the Fe redox cycle, (2) to quantify Fe redox cycling and (3) to determine its rate limiting factors, with emphasis on differences between stations across the slope and in the …

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A Four-Year Eddy-Permitting Assimilation Of Sea-Surface Temperature And Altimetric Data In The South Atlantic Ocean, Thierry Penduff, Pierre Brasseur, Charles-Emmanuel Testut, Bernard Barnier, Jacques Verron Jan 2002

A Four-Year Eddy-Permitting Assimilation Of Sea-Surface Temperature And Altimetric Data In The South Atlantic Ocean, Thierry Penduff, Pierre Brasseur, Charles-Emmanuel Testut, Bernard Barnier, Jacques Verron

Journal of Marine Research

Sea-surface temperature (SST) and sea-surface height (SSH) data are assimilated with a reduced-order sequential filter every 10 days over four years (1993-1996) in a 1/3-degree resolution South Atlantic primitive equation model. At every assimilation step, the misfit between observations and their model counterparts is evaluated and projected onto the dominant 10 multivariate, full-depth local modes of variability diagnosed from a free model run (without assimilation). Satellite observations are used to perform a sequential update of all model variables according to their "natural" correlations with the surface variables. In this paper, we perform a validation of both the mean state and …

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Physical And Numerical Modeling Of The Role Of Hydrodynamic Processes On Adult-Larval Interactions Of A Suspension-Feeding Bivalve, Mats Lindegarth, Per R. Jonsson, Carl André Jan 2002

Physical And Numerical Modeling Of The Role Of Hydrodynamic Processes On Adult-Larval Interactions Of A Suspension-Feeding Bivalve, Mats Lindegarth, Per R. Jonsson, Carl André

Journal of Marine Research

The importance of hydrodynamic processes for adult-larval interactions in the cockle, Cerastoderma edule, was examined through physical and numerical modeling. A set of physical experiments in a flow-tank using adult cockles and larval mimics showed that the settlement of particles was affected by adult cockles. Settlement was reduced by 20% in an area of 2.5 cm2 surrounding the siphons, and the most marked decrease occurred near the inhalant siphon. On a larger spatial scale downstream of the siphons, settlement was more heterogeneous compared to surfaces without cockles. The experimental results near individual cockles were compared with numerical models …

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Numerical Solution Of The Two-Layer Shallow Water Equations With Bottom Topography, Rick Salmon Jan 2002

Numerical Solution Of The Two-Layer Shallow Water Equations With Bottom Topography, Rick Salmon

Journal of Marine Research

We present a simple, robust numerical method for solving the two-layer shallow water equations with arbitrary bottom topography. Using the technique of operator splitting, we write the equations as a pair of hyperbolic systems with readily computed characteristics, and apply third-order-upwind differences to the resulting wave equations. To prevent the thickness of either layer from vanishing, we modify the dynamics, inserting an artificial form of potential energy that becomes very large as the layer becomes very thin. Compared to high-order Riemann schemes with flux or slope limiters, our method is formally more accurate, probably less dissipative, and certainly more efficient. …

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Sverdrup-Like Theories Of The Antarctic Circumpolar Current, Chris W. Hughes Jan 2002

Sverdrup-Like Theories Of The Antarctic Circumpolar Current, Chris W. Hughes

Journal of Marine Research

Two Sverdrup-like theories of the Antarctic Cirumpolar Current (ACC) have been proposed, due to Stommel and Webb, both of which assume an idealized geometry for the Southern Ocean in which all latitudes are blocked by either continents or "effective continents" consisting of major topographic features. However, the two models predict quite different dependencies of the ACC transport on wind stress: Stommel's model predicting transport proportional to wind stress curl, and Webb's model predicting transport proportional to the zonal wind stress. A generalization of Webb's model is shown to be equivalent to Godfrey's Island Rule, applied to an island straddling the …

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Floral Patterns In The California Current System Off Southern California: 1990–1996, E. L. Venrick Jan 2002

Floral Patterns In The California Current System Off Southern California: 1990–1996, E. L. Venrick

Journal of Marine Research

In 1990, CalCOFI cruises began routine collection of samples for the enumeration of phytoplankton species. From each quarterly cruise, nearsurface samples from 34 stations are pooled into four regional samples prior to counting. This paper summarizes the first 6.5 years of the program in order to identify major large-scale patterns of species composition and fluctuations. A total of 312 species were recognized during this study. Recurrent group analysis defines two major floral clusters. The first is composed of diatoms characteristic of enriched regions. This cluster is most abundant in the northeastern region and often attains maximum abundances in the spring. …

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Zooplankton Biomass And Indices Of Feeding And Metabolism In Relation To An Upwelling Filament Off Northwest Africa, S. Hernández-León, C. Almeida, A. Portillo-Hahnefeld, M. Gómez, J. M. Rodríguez, J. Arístegui Jan 2002

Zooplankton Biomass And Indices Of Feeding And Metabolism In Relation To An Upwelling Filament Off Northwest Africa, S. Hernández-León, C. Almeida, A. Portillo-Hahnefeld, M. Gómez, J. M. Rodríguez, J. Arístegui

Journal of Marine Research

Zooplankton biomass and indices of grazing (gut fluorescence), respiration (electron transfer system activity, ETS) and growth (aspartate transcarbamylase, ATC) were studied in relation to an upwelling filament off northwest Africa during August 1993. The filament extended 150 km offshore into the oligotrophic waters. It was generated by a trapped, quasi-permanent cyclonic eddy located between the Canary Islands and the African shelf. High biomass, specific gut fluorescence and electron transfer system activity in zooplankton were observed along the filament structure. In contrast, low values of biomass, gut fluorescence, ETS and ATC specific activities were found in the center of the trapped …

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The Antarctic Circumpolar Current As A Free Equivalent-Barotropic Jet, Peter D. Killworth, Chris W. Hughes Jan 2002

The Antarctic Circumpolar Current As A Free Equivalent-Barotropic Jet, Peter D. Killworth, Chris W. Hughes

Journal of Marine Research

Following the observation of Killworth that the time-mean velocity in FRAM was self-similar in the vertical, several papers have developed circulation theories of the Southern Ocean assuming such a structure. This paper seeks to create a consistent equivalent-barotropic solution for flow in part of the Southern Ocean, based on an expansion in which the northward variation of Coriolis parameter f is, in a sense, fairly weak. Such a solution only holds in regions of closed contours of a certain characteristic function of f and depth H (the equivalent-barotropic version of f/H, wherein the dependence on H is …

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The Transport In The Ekman Surface Layer On The Spherical Earth, Nathan Paldor Jan 2002

The Transport In The Ekman Surface Layer On The Spherical Earth, Nathan Paldor

Journal of Marine Research

The modification of the transport in the Ekman layer on the f-plane due to the Coriolis parameter's variation with latitude and the curvature of Earth's surface is analyzed by considering the temporal changes in the angular momentum. The latter plays the role of a dynamical variable of the model, replacing the zonal velocity component, and drag is modeled by Rayleigh friction. The steady transport, which on an f-plane is perpendicular to the applied wind stress, is recovered on the Earth as a special solution where the meridional velocity is time-independent. For zonal wind stress, the trajectory on Earth …

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Internal Wave Band Eddy Fluxes Above A Continental Slope, Johannes R. Gemmrich, Hans Van Haren Jan 2002

Internal Wave Band Eddy Fluxes Above A Continental Slope, Johannes R. Gemmrich, Hans Van Haren

Journal of Marine Research

Three weeks of velocity and temperature measurements from the bottom 45 m above the continental slope in the Bay of Biscay are used to evaluate the role of the internal wave band in boundary mixing near a sloping bottom. Utilizing acoustic Doppler current profilers and thermistor strings, internal wave band eddy fluxes of momentum and heat are estimated. The instrumentation is specifically designed to resolve internal wave band processes. Due to unresolved Doppler shifting, this wave band may include turbulence as well as internal waves. A very energetic and highly variable near-bottom environment is found. Periods of mixing and restratification …

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A Note On Evanescent Behavior Of Arctic Thermohaline Intrusions, David Walsh, Eddy Carmack Jan 2002

A Note On Evanescent Behavior Of Arctic Thermohaline Intrusions, David Walsh, Eddy Carmack

Journal of Marine Research

Temperature/salinity interleaving is a signature of thermohaline transition in the Arctic Ocean. These interleaving features, or "intrusions," are observed to decrease in amplitude as they spread laterally from warmer toward cooler water. Here this phenomenon is investigated by considering the effect of a nonlinear equation of state on intrusion structure and behavior. The analysis shows that large-scale gradients of the thermal expansion coefficient (α) can induce a spatial decay of intrusion temperature, salinity, and velocity amplitudes toward cooler water. Spatial decay implies a recirculating flow between adjacent layers, which induces a slow vertical propagation of the intrusions. The temperature-dependence of …

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Hourly Variations In Planktonic Larval Concentrations On The Inner Shelf: Emerging Patterns And Processes, Elizabeth D. Garland, Cheryl Ann Zimmer Jan 2002

Hourly Variations In Planktonic Larval Concentrations On The Inner Shelf: Emerging Patterns And Processes, Elizabeth D. Garland, Cheryl Ann Zimmer

Journal of Marine Research

Planktonic larvae are unlikely to be randomly distributed over time or in space. Fluctuations in larval density may result from a variety of physical and biological processes. To identify relatively high-frequency patterns of larval variation for an inner-shelf environment, zooplankton were sampled hourly for 3 d using an automated plankton pump. Moored ~80 cm above bottom, the pump was located in 8 m of water on the Outer Banks of North Carolina. Densities of all larval groups were highly variable: 5-746 m-3 for barnacle cyprids, 0-668 m-3 for polychaetes, 0-516 m-3 for bivalves, 6-414 m-3 for …

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Downward Particle  Fluxes And Sediment Accumulation Rates In The Western Bransfield Strait: Implications Of Lateral Transport For Carbon Cycle Studies In Antarctic Marginal Seas, Albert Palanques, Enrique Isla, Pere Masqué, Pere Puig, Joan-Albert Sánchez-Cabeza, Josep M. Gili, Jorge Guillén Jan 2002

Downward Particle  Fluxes And Sediment Accumulation Rates In The Western Bransfield Strait: Implications Of Lateral Transport For Carbon Cycle Studies In Antarctic Marginal Seas, Albert Palanques, Enrique Isla, Pere Masqué, Pere Puig, Joan-Albert Sánchez-Cabeza, Josep M. Gili, Jorge Guillén

Journal of Marine Research

Downward particle and carbon fluxes were studied along with sediment and carbon accumulation fluxes in the western Bransfield Strait. Particle fluxes at 1000 m depth indicate that most of the carbon accumulated in the seabed at the study site is transported laterally. Biogenic components of the near-bottom particle fluxes included well-preserved organic matter with benthic diatoms, amphipoda and polychaetes that were resuspended and/or winnowed in shallow environments and transported basinward. High near-bottom particle and carbon fluxes were in agreement with high sediment and carbon accumulation fluxes. About 12% of the near-bottom OC downward flux is buried below the SML in …

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Linear Planetary Wave Dynamics In A 2.5-Layer Ventilated Thermocline Model, Atsushi Kubokawa, Maki Nagakura Jan 2002

Linear Planetary Wave Dynamics In A 2.5-Layer Ventilated Thermocline Model, Atsushi Kubokawa, Maki Nagakura

Journal of Marine Research

Linear planetary wave dynamics in a 2.5-layer ventilated thermocline model is investigated by a local eigenvalue analysis and simple numerical computations. It is known that there are two types of waves in this system; we refer to one of them as the N-mode (Non-Doppler shift mode), which propagates almost westward, and the other as the A-mode (Advection mode), which propagates almost along the second layer basic current. First, we study the local longwave dynamics, assuming that the wavelength is much longer than the deformation radius and shorter than the gyre scale. It is shown that the N-mode …

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On The Relative Importance Of The Remote And Local Wind Effects On The Subtidal Exchange At The Entrance To The Chesapeake Bay, Kuo-Chuin Wong, Arnoldo Valle-Levinson Jan 2002

On The Relative Importance Of The Remote And Local Wind Effects On The Subtidal Exchange At The Entrance To The Chesapeake Bay, Kuo-Chuin Wong, Arnoldo Valle-Levinson

Journal of Marine Research

Water velocity data from acoustic Doppler current profilers and electromagnetic current meters deployed at six separate locations across the entrance of the Chesapeake Bay from mid-April to early July of 1999 and from early September to mid-November of 1999 were used in conjunction with wind velocity and sea level records to describe the characteristics of the wind-induced subtidal volume exchange between the bay and the adjacent continental shelf. The current measurements were used to estimate volume fluxes associated with the local and remote wind-induced bay-shelf exchange over time scales of 2–3 days. The results show that at these relatively short …

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On The Dispersion Of Pairs Of Internal Inertial Gravity Waves, S. A. Thorpe Jan 2002

On The Dispersion Of Pairs Of Internal Inertial Gravity Waves, S. A. Thorpe

Journal of Marine Research

The inclination of the group velocity vector to the horizontal, β, of internal inertial gravity waves propagating in a deep uniformly stratified fluid varies with wave frequency. Group velocity also depends on wavenumber. As a consequence, packets of waves with finite frequency and wavenumber bandwidths generated by intermittent processes at the sea surface or ocean floor will usually disperse. Waves may, however, interact with one-another to suppress or entirely remove such dispersion, resulting in packets or groups of waves which retain structure during propagation. Here conditions are sought in which dispersion is entirely suppressed by the interactions between waves composing …

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On Turbulence And Normal Modes In A Basin, J. H. Lacasce Jan 2002

On Turbulence And Normal Modes In A Basin, J. H. Lacasce

Journal of Marine Research

The problem of forced, geostrophic turbulence in a basin is revisited. The primary focus is the time dependent field, which is shown to be approximately isotropic (in contrast to the strongly zonally anisotropic fields seen in periodic domains). It is also approximately homogeneous, away from the boundaries. Phenomenological arguments suggest the isotropy occurs because the inverse cascade of energy is arrested by basin normal modes rather than by free Rossby waves. Peaks in the velocity spectra at modal frequencies are consistent with basin modes, as has been noted previously. We discuss which modes would be excited and whether dissipation or …

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