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TI Eddy-topography interactions and the fate of the Persian Gulf Outflow
BT 
AF VIC, Clement
   ROULLET, Guillaume
   CAPET, Xavier
   CARTON, Xavier
   MOLEMAKER, Maarten Jeroen
   GULA, J.
AS 1:1;2:4;3:2;4:4;5:3;6:1;
FF 1:;2:;3:PDG-DOP-DCB-OPS-LPO;4:;5:;6:;
C1 CNRS Ifremer IRD UBO, Lab Phys Oceans, UMR 6523, Brest, France.
   CNRS UPMC IRD MNHN, IPSL LOCEAN, UMR 7159, Paris, France.
   Univ Calif Los Angeles, Dept Atmospher & Ocean Sci, Los Angeles, CA USA.
C2 IFREMER, FRANCE
   CNRS, FRANCE
   UNIV CALIF LOS ANGELES, USA
   UBO, FRANCE
SI BREST
SE PDG-DOP-DCB-OPS-LPO
UM LOPS
IN WOS Ifremer jusqu'en 2018
   copubli-france
   copubli-univ-france
   copubli-int-hors-europe
IF 3.318
TC 52
UR https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00302/41332/40512.pdf
LA English
DT Article
AB The Persian Gulf feeds a warm and salty outflow in the Gulf of Oman (northern Arabian Sea). The salt climatological distribution is relatively smooth in the Gulf of Oman, and the signature of a slope current carrying salty waters is difficult to distinguish hundreds of kilometers past the Strait of Hormuz, in contrast to other outflows of the world ocean. This study focuses on the mechanisms involved in the spreading of Persian Gulf Water (PGW) in the Gulf of Oman, using a regional primitive equation numerical simulation. The authors show that the dispersion of PGW occurs through a regime that is distinct from, for example, the one responsible for the Mediterranean outflow dispersion. The background mesoscale eddy field is energetic and participates actively to the spreading of PGW. Remotely formed eddies propagate into the Gulf of Oman and interact with the topography, leading to submesoscales formation and PGW shedding. Eddy-topography interactions are isolated in idealized simulations and reveal the formation of intense frictional boundary layers, generating submesoscale coherent vortices (SCVs). Interactions take place at depths encompassing the PGW depth, thus SCVs trap PGW and contribute to its redistribution from the boundaries to the interior of the Gulf of Oman. The overall efficiency of these processes is confirmed by a strong contribution of eddy salt fluxes in the interior of the basin, and is quantified using particle statistics. It is found to be a highly dispersive regime, with an approximated eddy diffusivity of similar to 1700 m(2) s(-1).
PY 2015
PD OCT
SO Journal Of Geophysical Research-oceans
SN 0148-0227
PU Amer Geophysical Union
VL 120
IS 10
UT 000365539700006
BP 6700
EP 6717
DI 10.1002/2015JC011033
ID 41332
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