FN Archimer Export Format
PT J
TI Gyroscopic waves in the Mediterranean Sea
BT 
AF VAN HAREN, H
   MILLOT, C
AS 1:1;2:2;
FF 1:;2:;
C1 Netherlands Inst Sea Res, NL-1790 AB Den Burg, Netherlands.
   IFREMER, LOB COM CNRS, F-83507 La Seyne Sur Mer, France.
C2 INST SEA RESEARCH (NIOZ), NETHERLANDS
   IFREMER, FRANCE
IF 2.491
TC 31
UR https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/2005/publication-932.pdf
LA English
DT Article
CR GYROSCOP
   GYROSCOP
   GYROSCOP
   GYROSCOP
BO Téthys II
   Le Suroît
   L'Europe
AB In the ocean outside areas of dense-water formation, coherent vertical motions (w) are generally much weaker (similar to 10(-3)) than horizontal (u, v) ones. According to theoretical models based upon "the traditional approximation", i.e. where the horizontal component of the Coriolis force is neglected, describing inertio-gravity waves in the ocean interior, this holds especially for motions at the inertial frequency f: w(f) < O(10(-2)(u(f), v(f))). We present observations of significant w(f), with mean values of 10(-1)(u(f), v(f)) and occasional values of 1(u(f), v(f)), from the deep Western Mediterranean Sea characterized by very small buoyancy frequency N = 0 +/- 0.4f. Our observations also present evidence of vertical propagation of internal waves, originated in the near-surface density stratified layers, through homogeneous layers below. The observations could be interpreted only within the framework of "non-traditional approach" with the horizontal component of the Coriolis force fully taken into account.
PY 2005
PD DEC
SO Geophysical Research Letters
SN 0094-8276
PU Amer Geophysical Union
VL 32
IS 24
UT 000234364100002
DI 10.1029/2005GL023915
ID 932
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