Long Term Characterization of the Tidal Band Internal Wave Climate on the Central California Coast

0220566 Winant利用矿产管理局圣巴巴拉埃塞尔-圣玛丽亚盆地研究的10年数据，PI将描述当地内部潮汐状况。 拟议的研究的主要目标将是确定在中央加州地区的潮带运动的结构，计算与内潮相关的能量，并确定可能的耗散和混合的网站。将根据当地平均流量和分层的年周期，制定和评估关键内潮特性的年平均时间序列。将确定平均流场、分层和气象学中间歇事件对内部潮汐结构的影响。将查明与厄尔尼诺现象和其他年际引起的气象和海洋条件变化相对应的平均年周期的偏差。与本研究所产生的信息，它将有可能定量评估内潮对水质和资源管理问题的影响，在地理区域的研究和类似的沿海大陆架地区的美国西部。

0220566 Winant Using 10 years of data from the Mineral Management Service's Santa Barbara Channel-Santa Maria Basin study, the PIs will characterize the local internal tide regime. The major objectives of the proposed study will be to identify the structure of tidal band motions in the central California region, calculate the energetics associated with the internal tide, and identify possible dissipation and mixing sites. Mean annual time series of the key internal tide properties will be developed and assessed in terms of the annual cycles of the local mean flow and stratification. The influence of intermittent events in the mean flow field, stratification and meteorology on the internal tide structure will be identified. Aberrations from the mean annual cycles corresponding to El Nino and other interannual induced changes in meteorology and ocean conditions will be identified. With the information generated by this study, it will be possible to quantitatively assess the effects of internal tides on water quality and resource management issues in the geographical region of study and in similar coastal shelf regions of the western United States.