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1996

Oceanography and Atmospheric Sciences and Meteorology

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Observation Of Shelfwater Overrunning The Southern Slope Sea, Ajoy Kumar Apr 1996

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 Jan 1996

Circulation, Winter 1996, Center For Coastal Physical Oceanography, Old Dominion University

CCPO Circulation

Winter 1996 issue of CCPO Circulation featuring article "The Ocean Mesoscale"