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TI Observations on the Lateral Structure of Wind-Driven Flows in a Stratified, Semiarid Bay of the Gulf of California
BT 
AF WINANT, Chloe
   VALLE-LEVINSON, Arnoldo
   PONTE, Aurelien
   WINANT, Clinton
   GUTIERREZ-DE-VELASCO, Guillermo
   WINTERS, Kraig
AS 1:1;2:1;3:2;4:3;5:4;6:3;
FF 1:;2:;3:PDG-ODE-LPO;4:;5:;6:;
C1 Univ Florida, Gainesville, FL 32601 USA.
   IFREMER, Ctr Bretagne, Lab Phys Oceans, Plouzane, France.
   Univ Calif San Diego, Scripps Inst Oceanog, La Jolla, CA 92093 USA.
   CICESE, La Paz, Mexico.
C2 UNIV FLORIDA, USA
   IFREMER, FRANCE
   UNIV CALIF SAN DIEGO, USA
   CICESE, MEXICO
SI BREST
SE PDG-ODE-LPO
IN WOS Ifremer jusqu'en 2018
   copubli-int-hors-europe
   copubli-sud
IF 2.535
TC 5
UR https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00171/28218/32176.pdf
LA English
DT Article
DE ;Wind-driven flow;Stratification;Concepcion Bay;Semiarid
AB Time series of current velocity profiles and thermistor chains were obtained throughout a cross-bay transect for ~90 days for the purpose of comparing observed wind-driven stratified flows to theory. This study concentrates on the synoptic scale wind and its influence on the bay’s circulation. The maximum water column stratification was 3–4 °C/m throughout the deployment and influenced wind-driven flows. Low-pass filtered flows showed more complicated structures than those expected from theory: a depth-dependent recirculating structure with the along-bay flow over one half of the transect moving in opposite direction to the other half. Analysis of complex empirical orthogonal functions indicated that the first six modes explained 80 % of the flow variability. Therefore, there was no predominantly energetic mode of variability. All modes exhibited a rich spatial structure with vertical and lateral variations. For all modes there was vertically sheared bidirectional flow, as expected from theory, with the largest eigenvector (mode value) asymmetrically influenced by Earth’s rotation and advection of momentum.
PY 2014
PD NOV
SO Estuaries And Coasts
SN 1559-2723
PU Springer
VL 37
IS 6
UT 000343722700002
BP 1319
EP 1328
DI 10.1007/s12237-013-9641-0
ID 28218
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