Marginal Sea - Open Ocean Exchange

Abstract

The long-term goal of this project is to contribute to our understanding of the circulation, exchange, and environment between marginal seas and the open ocean. The objective of this study is to better understand how the exchange between a marginal sea and the open ocean and the circulation within the marginal sea depends on the wind- and buoyancy-forcing in the marginal sea and open ocean. Areas of focus include: mass and heat flux through the straits; circulation pathways in the marginal sea; regions of large air-sea heat flux; regions of deep mixing and downwelling in the marginal sea.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 30, 2001
Accession Number
ADA623769

Entities

People

  • Michael A. Spall

Organizations

  • Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Australia
  • Boundaries
  • Boundary Layer
  • Buoyancy
  • Environment
  • Heat Flux
  • Heat Loss
  • Indian Ocean
  • Models
  • Ocean Currents
  • Oceanography
  • Oceans
  • Pacific Ocean
  • Physical Oceanography
  • Predictive Modeling
  • South China Sea
  • Temperature Gradients

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

  • Ocean-Atmosphere Mesoscale Modeling, Data Assimilation, and Flux Boundary Layers