Simulation of the Laptev Sea shelf dynamics with focus on the Lena Delta region
The polar shelf zones are highly dynamic and diverse systems. They form a border between warm and fresh water of continental drain and the cold currents of the northern seas. The Lena River is one of the largest rivers in the Arctic, with the largest delta. The south-eastern part of the Laptev Sea,...
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ftawi:oai:epic.awi.de:35897 2024-09-15T18:02:34+00:00 Simulation of the Laptev Sea shelf dynamics with focus on the Lena Delta region Fofonova, Vera 2014-06-06 application/pdf https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/35897/ https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/35897/1/PhD_thesis_VF_final.pdf https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.43819 https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.43819.d001 unknown https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/35897/1/PhD_thesis_VF_final.pdf https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.43819.d001 Fofonova, V. orcid:0000-0002-5956-1844 (2014) Simulation of the Laptev Sea shelf dynamics with focus on the Lena Delta region PhD thesis, Jacobs University. hdl:10013/epic.43819 EPIC3 Thesis notRev 2014 ftawi 2024-06-24T04:09:53Z The polar shelf zones are highly dynamic and diverse systems. They form a border between warm and fresh water of continental drain and the cold currents of the northern seas. The Lena River is one of the largest rivers in the Arctic, with the largest delta. The south-eastern part of the Laptev Sea, which includes the Lena Delta region, is the place where substantial changes in ocean circulation and ecosystem may happen in changing climate. Exploring processes there, which may serve as an indicator of climate change, acquire a special importance. The Lena freshwater plume propagation dominates many aspects of dynamics in the Laptev Sea shelf. However, the direct measurements are by far insufficient, calling for a modeling approach which would enable one to estimate the impact of different factors on the circulation dynamics and would lay the foundation for further ecosystem modeling. The complexity of the region’s geometry and insufficient data make modeling of ocean circulation in the Lena Delta vicinity a challenging technical task not solved in the necessary detail previously. The quantitative effect of various factors (tides, winds, hear exchange with the atmosphere) on the freshwater plume propagation also has not been fully explored. The main goal of this thesis is the analysis of the Lena River freshwater plume dynamics in the summer season on the basis of a full baroclinic numerical model of the Laptev Sea shelf with focus on the Lena Delta region. The setup is based on FVCOM (The Unstructured Grid Finite Volume Coastal/Community Ocean Model; Chen et al. 2006). The thesis contains a detailed description of the model setup, including the generation of an unstructured mesh, analysis of barotropic and baroclinic dynamics in the region of interest, the description of new approaches for the model elaboration and visualization of simulation results and a comparison of the impact of different atmospheric forcing products on the simulated dynamics. Special attention is paid to the Lena River hydrology regime in ... Thesis Climate change laptev Laptev Sea lena delta lena river Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar- and Marine Research (AWI): ePIC (electronic Publication Information Center) |
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The polar shelf zones are highly dynamic and diverse systems. They form a border between warm and fresh water of continental drain and the cold currents of the northern seas. The Lena River is one of the largest rivers in the Arctic, with the largest delta. The south-eastern part of the Laptev Sea, which includes the Lena Delta region, is the place where substantial changes in ocean circulation and ecosystem may happen in changing climate. Exploring processes there, which may serve as an indicator of climate change, acquire a special importance. The Lena freshwater plume propagation dominates many aspects of dynamics in the Laptev Sea shelf. However, the direct measurements are by far insufficient, calling for a modeling approach which would enable one to estimate the impact of different factors on the circulation dynamics and would lay the foundation for further ecosystem modeling. The complexity of the region’s geometry and insufficient data make modeling of ocean circulation in the Lena Delta vicinity a challenging technical task not solved in the necessary detail previously. The quantitative effect of various factors (tides, winds, hear exchange with the atmosphere) on the freshwater plume propagation also has not been fully explored. The main goal of this thesis is the analysis of the Lena River freshwater plume dynamics in the summer season on the basis of a full baroclinic numerical model of the Laptev Sea shelf with focus on the Lena Delta region. The setup is based on FVCOM (The Unstructured Grid Finite Volume Coastal/Community Ocean Model; Chen et al. 2006). The thesis contains a detailed description of the model setup, including the generation of an unstructured mesh, analysis of barotropic and baroclinic dynamics in the region of interest, the description of new approaches for the model elaboration and visualization of simulation results and a comparison of the impact of different atmospheric forcing products on the simulated dynamics. Special attention is paid to the Lena River hydrology regime in ... |
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https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/35897/1/PhD_thesis_VF_final.pdf https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.43819.d001 Fofonova, V. orcid:0000-0002-5956-1844 (2014) Simulation of the Laptev Sea shelf dynamics with focus on the Lena Delta region PhD thesis, Jacobs University. hdl:10013/epic.43819 |
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