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RISThe Subinertial Momentum Balance of the North Atlantic Subtropical Convergence Zone
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: The upper-ocean to forcing by pressure gradients and wind stress is examined using observations from the Frontal Air?Sea Interaction Experiment. A moored way acquired time series of winds. upper-ocean currents, temperatures, ...
The Upper-Ocean Response to Surface Heating
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: Moored observations of atmospheric variables and upper-ocean temperatures from the Long-Term Upper-Ocean Study (LOTUS) and the Frontal Air-Sea Interaction Experiment (FASINEX) are used to examine the upper-ocean response ...
Intensification of Ocean Fronts by Down-Front Winds
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: Many ocean fronts experience strong local atmospheric forcing by down-front winds, that is, winds blowing in the direction of the frontal jet. An analytic theory and nonhydrostatic numerical simulations are used to demonstrate ...
The Subpolar Front of the Japan/East Sea. Part II: Inverse Method for Determining the Frontal Vertical Circulation
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: An inverse method for inferring vertical velocities from high-resolution hydrographic/velocity surveys is formulated and applied to observations collected at the subpolar front of the Japan/East Sea (JES) taken during ...
The Subpolar Front of the Japan/East Sea. Part III: Competing Roles of Frontal Dynamics and Atmospheric Forcing in Driving Ageostrophic Vertical Circulation and Subduction
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: he effects of wind stress and surface cooling on ageostrophic vertical circulation and subduction at the subpolar front of the Japan/East Sea are investigated using a nonhydrostatic numerical model. In experiments forced ...
Subthermocline Eddies over the Washington Continental Slope as Observed by Seagliders, 2003–09
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: n the California Current System, subthermocline, lenslike anticyclonic eddies generated within the California Undercurrent (CU) are one mechanism for lateral transport of the warm, saline waters of the CU. Garfield et al. ...
Oceanic Boundary Conditions for Jakobshavn Glacier. Part II: Provenance and Sources of Variability of Disko Bay and Ilulissat Icefjord Waters, 1990–2011
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: akobshavn Glacier, west Greenland, has responded to temperature changes in Ilulissat Icefjord, into which it terminates. Basin waters in this fjord exchange with neighboring Disko Bay waters of a particular density at least ...
Global Estimates of Lateral Springtime Restratification
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: ubmesoscale frontal dynamics are thought to be of leading-order importance for stratifying the upper ocean by slumping horizontal density gradients to produce vertical stratification. Presented here is an investigation of ...
Japan/East Sea Intrathermocline Eddies
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: Intrathermocline eddies (ITE) with diameters of 100 km and of thickness greater than 100 m are observed within each of the three quasi-stationary meanders of the Tsushima Current of the Japan/East Sea. Within the ITE ...
Structure of the Baroclinic Tide Generated at Kaena Ridge, Hawaii
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: Repeat transects of full-depth density and velocity are used to quantify generation and radiation of the semidiurnal internal tide from Kaena Ridge, Hawaii. A 20-km-long transect was sampled every 3 h using expendable ...