Laboratory Studies of Density Increase on Shelves

LONG TERM GOALS. The long-term goal is to understand the fluid mechanics of buoyancy and wind driven transport on the continental shelf, including along-shelf transport and exchange with the deep Arctic Ocean. OBJECTIVES. To understand flows in scaled laboratory experiments. APPROACH. We developed p...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Whitehead, John A
Other Authors: WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION MA
Format: Text
Language:English
Published: 1999
Subjects:
Physical and Dynamic Oceanography
Fluid Mechanics
*ARCTIC REGIONS
*CONTINENTAL SHELVES
*FLUID MECHANICS
*WIND
EXCHANGE
FLOW
LABORATORIES
LABORATORY TESTS
OCEANOGRAPHIC DATA
PATTERNS
PROTOTYPES
REQUIREMENTS
THEORY
TRANSPORT
Arctic
Arctic Ocean
Online Access:http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/ADA629649
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Summary:LONG TERM GOALS. The long-term goal is to understand the fluid mechanics of buoyancy and wind driven transport on the continental shelf, including along-shelf transport and exchange with the deep Arctic Ocean. OBJECTIVES. To understand flows in scaled laboratory experiments. APPROACH. We developed prototype laboratory experiments and generated simple theories. The experiments and theories indicate design requirements for further experiments. We then design and conduct new laboratory experiments that yield important new observations of flow patterns and quantitative measurements of important parameters. These are compared with theory and ocean data.

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