EXPERIMENTS ON CIRCULATION OF THE GULF OF MEXICO AND THE CARIBBEAN SEA WITH A ROTATING TANK,

Abstract

The Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea are important areas which supply positive vorticity as well as volume transport to the coastal side of the southern half of the western boundary current (Gulf Stream System) of the North Atlantic Ocean. Experiments were carried out with scale models of both basins in a circular tank of plexiglass with a diameter of 120 cm mounted on a turntable rotated at speeds between 4 and 8 r.p.m. The water movement was observed by taking time-lapse 16 mm motion pictures of dye (for deep and bottom water) and paper patches (for surface water). (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 1969
Accession Number
AD0701334

Entities

People

  • Takashi Ichiye

Organizations

  • Texas A&M University

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Atlantic Ocean
  • Bottom Waters
  • Caribbean Sea
  • Gulf Stream
  • Motion Pictures
  • North Atlantic Ocean
  • Oceans
  • Scale Models
  • Surface Waters
  • Water

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

  • Coastal Oceanography
  • Computer Vision.
  • Marine Hydrodynamics