Current dynamics Current meter observations in the Sea of Okhotsk near Shmidt Peninsula, northern Sakhalin
Current meter measurements from the summer of 2006 at the Kaygano-Vasyukansky (KV), Vostochno-Shmidtovsky (VS) and Zapadno-Shmidtovsky (ZS) oil and gas-bearing blocks are analyzed. Observations revealed the important role of the diurnal tidal currents, which predominated over other types of water mo...
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| Online Access: | http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.359.8666 http://www.pices.int/publications/scientific_reports/Report36/113-127-Current-meter-observations.pdf |
| Summary: | Current meter measurements from the summer of 2006 at the Kaygano-Vasyukansky (KV), Vostochno-Shmidtovsky (VS) and Zapadno-Shmidtovsky (ZS) oil and gas-bearing blocks are analyzed. Observations revealed the important role of the diurnal tidal currents, which predominated over other types of water motions in the area which adjoins the remote part of northern Sakhalin Island (Shmidt Peninsula). The ellipses of main tidal constituents were highly compressed and changed little with depth. Residual (non-tidal) flows in the intermediate and near-bottom layers had a steadier nature in comparison with the surface, in which the wind effect was shown. The main flow in these layers had orientations on the KV block to the south and southsouthwest; on the VS block to the east and south-southeast; in the northern part of the ZS block to the southsouthwest and to the east; in the southern part of the ZS block to the north and northeast. |
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