Observations of Cross-Shelf Flow Driven by Cross-Shelf Winds on the Inner Continental Shelf

Observations of Cross-Shelf Flow Driven by Cross-Shelf Winds on the Inner Continental Shelf

Six-yr-long time series of winds, waves, and water velocity from a cabled coastal observatory in 12 m of water reveal the separate dependence of the cross-shelf velocity profile on cross-shelf and along-shelf winds, waves, and tides. During small waves, cross-shelf wind is the dominant mechanism driving the cross-shelf circulation after tides and tidal residual motions are removed. The along-sh...

Subtidal Cross - Shelf Circulation on the Northern California Shelf

Moored time series from the Coastal Ocean Dynamics Experiment (CODE), Shelf Mixed Layer Experiment (SMILE), Sediment Transport Events over the Shelf and Slope (STRESS) study, and Northern California Coastal Circulation Study (NCCCS) are used to study subtidal cross-shelf circulation over the northern California shelf. The northern California shelf, like much of the United States Pacific coast, ...

Small-scale variability of the cross-shelf flow over the outer shelf of the Ross Sea

[1] The importance of cross-shelf transport across the Ross Sea on local and remote processes has been well documented. In the Ross Sea, mid-water intrusions of Circumpolar Deep Water (CDW) are modified by shelf water near the shelf break to form Modified Circumpolar DeepWater (MCDW). In 2010–2011, we deployedmulti-platform technologies focused on this MCDW intrusion in the vicinity of Mawson a...

Cross–Shelf Exchange Along the Antarctic Continental Margin: Modeling Results

The shelf areas around the Antarctic Continent are locations of dense water formation; part of these water masses ventilate the adjacent deep ocean basins and enter the global thermohaline circulation. This paper takes a look at regional differences of shelf sea–deep ocean exchange in high southern latitudes (mainly between the Weddell and Ross Seas), highlights a few physical mechanisms potent...

Monaco: the shallow continental shelf.