Exchange Processes Near Wide Arctic Canyons and Modeling Exchange Processes Near Wide Arctic Canyons

Abstract

Understanding across-shelf exchange and shelf dynamics due to wind and buoyancy forcing. The main objective of this project is to describe and physically explain the dominant processes active within the wide Canadian Mackenzie Canyon prior to the onset of winter freezing. More specifically, the project will answer the following questions: (1) Do fresh Mackenzie shelf waters exit preferentially through Mackenzie Canyon? (2) How does the canyon circulation respond to local wind forcing? (3) Does an orographically induced wind-stress curl impact the canyon dynamics? (4) What are the spatial and temporal scales of vortices that populate this canyon?

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 30, 1998
Accession Number
ADA537164

Entities

People

  • Andreas Muenchow

Organizations

  • Rutgers University–New Brunswick

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Ground and Sea Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Arctic Ocean
  • Chemical Compounds
  • Climate Change
  • Data Analysis
  • Dynamics
  • Information Operations
  • Layers
  • Measurement
  • New Brunswick
  • Richardson Number
  • Sea Level
  • Stratified Fluids
  • Tidal Currents
  • Turbulent Mixing
  • Underwater Acoustics
  • Universities
  • Wind Stress

Readers

  • Coastal Oceanography
  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • Polar and Arctic Studies