Shelf-Slope Water Exchange through Interaction of Eddies with Buoyancy-Driven Currents

PI：CenedeseProposal编号：0081756 Funds用于在旋转水槽中模拟海洋涡流和陆架破裂锋流的相互作用。我们将研究参数空间中具有海洋学意义的子集。将利用大西洋中部海湾/新英格兰大陆架上的夏季和冬季分层。所研究的参数空间将是陆架射流强度与涡流强度之比以及陆架水流宽度与涡旋Rossby半径之比。重点将放在了解跨陆架断裂区域的质量交换。

PI: CenedeseProposal Number: 0081756Funds are provided for laboratory experiments in a rotating tank simulating the interaction of an oceanic eddy and a shelf break frontal current. Oceanographically interesting subsets of parameter space will be investigated. Stratification representing both summer and winter stratification on the Middle Atlantic Bight /New England shelf will be utilized. The parameter space investigated will be the ratio of shelf jet current strength to eddy current strength and the ratio of shelf current width to Rossby radius of the eddy. Emphasis will be placed on understanding the exchange of mass across the shelf break region.