Laboratory Studies of Density Increase on Shelves
Abstract
The long-term goal is to understand the fluid mechanics of buoyancy and wind driven transport on a polar continental shelf, including along-shelf transport and exchange with the deep Arctic Ocean. The objective is to understand flows in scaled laboratory experiments in a manner suitable for application to processes in physical oceanography. Prototype laboratory experiments are designed and approximate theories and scaling are laid out. Their results indicate design requirements for refined experiments that yield observations of flow patterns and quantitative measurements of important parameters. These are compared with theory and ocean data.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Sep 30, 2000
- Accession Number
- ADA609729
Entities
People
- John A. Whitehead
Organizations
- Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution