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Observation Of Shelfwater Overrunning The Southern Slope Sea, Ajoy Kumar
Observation Of Shelfwater Overrunning The Southern Slope Sea, Ajoy Kumar
OES Theses and Dissertations
Analyses of two years (1992 and 1993) of high resolution (1.47 km2) sea surface temperature satellite images of the southern Mid-Atlantic Bight (MAB), showed that unusually extensive overhang of shelf water occurs episodically, and coherently over along shelf distances of several hundred kilometers. These episodes are dubbed overrunning of the Slope Sea by shelf water. The overrunning volume has a "face" and a "back" (southern and northern limit). It transports substantial quantities of shelf water southward, and does not retreat onto the shelf, but eventually joins the western edge of the Gulf Stream in the vicinity of Chesapeake …
Circulation, Winter 1996, Center For Coastal Physical Oceanography, Old Dominion University
Circulation, Winter 1996, Center For Coastal Physical Oceanography, Old Dominion University
CCPO Circulation
Winter 1996 issue of CCPO Circulation featuring article "The Ocean Mesoscale"