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

项目资金用于模拟海洋涡旋和陆架断裂锋面流相互作用的旋转槽的实验室实验。将研究海洋学上有趣的参数空间子集。将利用代表中大西洋湾/新英格兰大陆架夏季和冬季分层的分层。所研究的参数空间将是陆架射流强度与涡流强度的比值，以及陆架电流宽度与涡流的罗斯比半径的比值。重点将放在理解横跨陆架断裂区域的质量交换上。

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.