DOI: 10.1029/2017JC013721
Scopus记录号: 2-s2.0-85050809483
论文题名: Remote Forcing of Shelf Flows by Density Gradients and the Origin of the Annual Mean Flow on the Mid-Atlantic Bight
作者: Pringle J.M.
刊名: Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans
ISSN: 21699275
出版年: 2018
卷: 123, 期: 7 起始页码: 4464
结束页码: 4482
语种: 英语
英文关键词: coastal circulation
; density-driven flows
英文摘要: In the annual mean, a southwestward along-isobath flow exists in the Mid-Atlantic Bight. It has been shown to be driven neither by local winds, which are too weak and in the wrong direction to explain the flow, nor by local density gradients, which are too weak to explain the flow. Prior work has established that the mean flow is part of a local alongshore momentum balance between bottom friction and along-isobath pressure gradient; but that work does not explain the origin of the pressure gradient. A simple model of shelf flows driven by density anomalies elsewhere on the shelf is developed. This model is used to argue that the annual average flow is consistent with remote forcing by density gradients on the shelf along the southern edge of the Laurentian Channel and the Scotian Shelf. These density gradients are largely caused by freshwater input from the Saint Lawrence River, and their effect when integrated over the Laurentian Channel, Scotian Shelf, and Gulf of Maine shows only a weak seasonal signal. ©2018. American Geophysical Union. All Rights Reserved. Citation statistics:
资源类型: 期刊论文
标识符: http://119.78.100.158/handle/2HF3EXSE/113670
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作者单位: University of New Hampshire, Ocean Process Analysis Laboratory in the Institute for the Study of Earth, Ocean and Space and the Department of Earth Science, Durham, NH, United States
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Pringle J.M.. Remote Forcing of Shelf Flows by Density Gradients and the Origin of the Annual Mean Flow on the Mid-Atlantic Bight[J]. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans,2018-01-01,123(7)