Dense water cascading off the continental shelf

Role of dense shelf water cascading in the transfer of organochlorine compounds to open marine waters.

Settling particles were collected by an array of sediment trap moorings deployed along the Cap de Creus (CCC) and Lacaze-Duthiers (LDC) submarine canyons and on the adjacent southern open slope (SOS) between October 2005 and October 2006. This array collected particles during common settling processes and particles transferred to deep waters by dense shelf water cascading (DSWC). Polychlorobiph...

Numerical Model Simulations of Continental Shelf Flows off Northern California

The three-dimensional circulation on the continental shelf off northern California in the WEST (Wind Events and Shelf Transport) experiment region during summer 2001 is studied using the primitive equation Regional Ocean Modeling System (ROMS). The simulations are performed with realistic topography and initial stratification in a limited-area domain with a high-resolution grid. Forcing consist...

Impact of dense shelf water cascading on the transfer of organic matter to the deep western Mediterranean basin

[1] During winter 2005–2006, particle fluxes and nearbottom currents were measured in and around the LacazeDuthiers and Cap de Creus submarine canyons (western Gulf of Lion). Current anomalies show the occurrence of a major dense shelf water cascading event down to the slope, the latest recorded up to date in the area. Concomitant increased total mass fluxes highlight the ability of cascading w...

On the dynamics of dense water descending a continental slope

Monaco: the shallow continental shelf.