Laboratory Studies of Density Increase on Shelves

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 applicat...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Whitehead, John A
Other Authors: WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION MA
Format: Text
Language:English
Published: 2000
Subjects:
Physical and Dynamic Oceanography
Fluid Mechanics
*CONTINENTAL SHELVES
*FLUID MECHANICS
*TRANSPORT
ARCTIC OCEAN
BUOYANCY
DEEP DEPTH
DENSITY
FLOW
PATTERNS
POLAR REGIONS
WIND
*ALONG-SHELF TRANSPORT
Arctic
Arctic Ocean
Online Access:http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/ADA609729
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Summary: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.

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