Collaborative research: Coastal inertial-band dynamics: separating forced and free responses in a natural laboratory

全球地面风为地面混合层中的惯性振荡提供了大约0.5太瓦特的能量。由于沿海海域的表面积较小，因此其风力做功比公海要少。然而，近惯性波的产生沿海岸线得到加强，因为边界导致混合层速度的大的收敛和发散。这一过程在动力学上意义重大，因为它将能量从被迫的表面受困运动转移到自由运动，这可能会在分层的内部产生水流和湍流。近海的理想化理论和观测已经证实了近惯性波的产生和传播，但观测研究尚未将自由运动和强迫运动分开，从而可以准确地量化内波的产生、能量通量和耗散。此外，还没有综合个别研究的结果来估计沿海近惯性波产生的全球意义或地理意义。该项目将改善对整个沿海海洋、边缘海和大型湖泊中近惯性运动的动力学理解和预测。实地考察还将有助于我们了解苏必利尔湖的地球物理动力学，苏必利尔湖是一种宝贵的资源，在物理测量方面采样不足。这些贡献包括第一次在湖中进行大范围湍流测量，以及多年密度和洋流时间序列的延伸。同时对叶绿素荧光、浊度和氧气的测量也将阐明苏必利尔湖湍流和生物地球化学之间目前未知的关系。该项目还将为海洋学和湖泊学研究生课程开发工具和课程，并通过与环境保护局当地办公室合作制定公共漂流建设计划，支持明尼苏达州德卢斯的公民科学。该项目还将培训一名博士生和两名本科生暑期研究人员。该项目旨在量化从风工作到消散的海岸动能路径，并通过扩展现有的海岸近惯性波产生理论并对其进行明确测试，对海岸惯性带动力学进行详细描述。这将使用真实的数值模拟和对风工作、混合层和分层湍流以及沿海岸线和粗糙的沿海地形的近惯性内波的产生、传播和消散的密集直接观测来完成。具体地说，苏必利尔湖将收集大量观测数据，该湖夏季以近惯性运动为主，潮汐可以忽略不计，平均环流很弱，河流输入很少，这也使它成为沿海海洋的理想实验室。观测将包括对船基勘测和绳行者波浪动力系泊剖面仪进行的大范围湍流测量。三个传统的系泊设施也将部署四年，延长现有的时间序列，可以用来识别极端事件和近惯性运动的长期趋势。该项目还包括对分析和数值模式的新分析，这将有助于收集和解释观测结果，并使苏必利尔湖的结果能够利用历史风速、分层和水深测量数据推广到整个沿海海洋。

Surface winds globally impart about half a terawatt of energy to inertial oscillations in the surface mixed layer. The coastal ocean receives less wind work than the open ocean because it has less surface area. However, near-inertial wave generation is enhanced along coastlines, because the boundary induces large convergences and divergences in mixed-layer velocities. This process is dynamically significant because it transfers energy from forced surface-trapped motions to free motions, which can produce currents and turbulence in the stratified interior. Idealized theories and observations of the coastal ocean have confirmed the generation and propagation of near-inertial waves, but observational studies have not yet separated free and forced motions so that internal-wave generation, energy flux, and dissipation can be accurately quantified. Furthermore, the results of individual studies have not been synthesized to estimate the global significance or geography of coastal near-inertial wave generation. This project will improve the dynamical understanding and prediction of near inertial motions throughout the coastal ocean, in marginal seas, and in large lakes. The fieldwork will also contribute to our knowledge of the geophysical dynamics of Lake Superior, a valuable resource that is under-sampled with respect to physical measurements. These contributions include the first broad-scale turbulence measurements in the lake and the extension of a multi-year time series of density and currents. Coinciding measurements of chlorophyll fluorescence, turbidity, and oxygen will also illuminate the presently unknown relationships between turbulence and biogeochemistry in Lake Superior. The project will also develop tools and lessons for graduate oceanography and limnology courses, and support citizen science in Duluth, MN, via the development of a public drifter-building program in conjunction with the local office of the Environmental Protection Agency. The project will also train a PhD student and two undergraduate summer researchers.This project aims to quantify coastal kinetic-energy pathways from wind work to dissipation, and produce a detailed description of coastal inertial-band dynamics by extending existing theories of coastal near-inertial wave generation and definitively testing them. This will be done using realistic numerical simulations and intensive direct observations of wind work, mixed-layer and stratified turbulence, and near-inertial internal-wave generation, propagation, and dissipation along a coastline and over rough coastal topography. Specifically, extensive observations will collected in Lake Superior, which is dominated by near-inertial motions during summer and has negligible tides, weak mean circulation, and little river input, making it also an ideal laboratory of the coastal ocean. The observations will include broad-scale measurements of turbulence from ship-based surveys and Wirewalker wave-powered moored profilers. Three traditional moorings will also be deployed for four years, extending an existing time series that can be used to identify extreme events and long-term trends in near-inertial motions. The project also includes novel analyses of analytical and numerical models, which will aid in the collection and interpretation of observations and enable the results in Lake Superior to be extended throughout the coastal ocean using historical wind, stratification, and bathymetry data.