The Role of Topography in Cross-Shelf-Break Tracer Exchange

地形在跨货架断裂示踪物交换中的作用

• 批准号: RGPIN-2016-03865
• 负责人: Allen, Susan
• 金额: $ 2.91万
• 依托单位: University of British Columbia
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: Discovery Grants Program - Individual
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2016-01-01 至 2017-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=614681
• 关键词: Role; Topography; Cross; Shelf; Break

The rotation of the Earth and its Coriolis force limit the exchange of water between the coastal ocean and the deep ocean. This limited exchange is often illustrated by significant changes in water properties, such as colour, near the location of the shelf-break. Various processes can break these dynamical constraints and allow exchange flow. One of these is caused by small scale topography such as underwater canyons. We propose to quantify the amount of specific, environmentally important tracers that are transported through submarine canyons. These tracers include nitrate (a limiting nutrient for plankton growth), dissolved inorganic carbon (which can be upwelled and increase the flux of CO2 to the atmosphere), and water containing low oxygen (which can cause anoxia on the shelf). We will include the impact of the enhanced mixing that occurs in canyons and the impact of flow interactions among multiple canyons or between canyons and headlands. Our goal is to determine the net impact of multiple canyons on tracer flux in a shelf region over seasonal cycles.

地球的自转及其科里奥利力限制了沿海海洋和深海之间的水交换。这种有限的交换通常通过断架位置附近水特性（例如颜色）的显着变化来说明。各种流程可以打破这些动态约束并允许交换流动。其中之一是由小规模地形（例如水下峡谷）引起的。我们建议量化通过海底峡谷运输的特定的、对环境重要的示踪剂的数量。这些示踪剂包括硝酸盐（浮游生物生长的限制性营养物质）、溶解的无机碳（可以上升并增加二氧化碳到大气中的通量）和含氧量低的水（可以导致架子缺氧）。我们将包括峡谷中发生的增强混合的影响以及多个峡谷之间或峡谷与岬角之间的流动相互作用的影响。我们的目标是确定季节性周期内多个峡谷对陆架区域示踪剂通量的净影响。