Topographic Influence on Overflow Dynamics: Idealized Numerical Simulations and the Faroe Bank Channel Overflow

• Main Author: Ezer, Tal
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: ODU Digital Commons 2006
• Subjects: Boundary layer flow; Channel flow; Computer simulation; Denmark Strait; Flow; Sensitivity analysis; Steady flow; Oceanography; Faroe Bank; NADW; North Atlantic Deep Water; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/ccpo_pubs/127; https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1136&context=ccpo_pubs

Properties of the North Atlantic Deep Water (NADW) depend on mixing that occurs in the Denmark Strait (DS) and the Faroe Bank Channel (FBC) overflow regions. How the sill's topography in those regions may affect mixing processes and downstream variability is thus investigated using a high-resol...