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  • Dataset
    Bedford Institute of Oceanography CTD Data from 10 cruises to the Eastern Gulf of Maine/Scotian Shelf aboard Canadian ships CCGS Cygnus, R/V Hudson, and R/V Parizeau from 1993-1999 (GB project)
    (Biological and Chemical Oceanography Data Management Office (BCO-DMO). Contact: bco-dmo-data@whoi.edu, 2019-08-05) Smith, Peter C.
    Bedford Institute of Oceanography CTD Data from 10 cruises to the Eastern Gulf of Maine/Scotian Shelf aboard Canadian ships CCGS Cygnus, R/V Hudson, and R/V Parizeau from 1993-1999 (GB project) For a complete list of measurements, refer to the full dataset description in the supplemental file 'Dataset_description.pdf'. The most current version of this dataset is available at: https://www.bco-dmo.org/dataset/2405
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    Ship data collected along the track during R/V Edwin Link cruises EL9904 and EL9905 in the Gulf of Maine and Georges Bank as part of the U.S. GLOBEC program in 1999
    (Biological and Chemical Oceanography Data Management Office (BCO-DMO). Contact: bco-dmo-data@whoi.edu, 2019-10-28) Fisher, Karen ; Manning, James P. ; Smith, Peter C.
    Ship data collected along the track during R/V Edwin Link cruises EL9904 and EL9905 in the Gulf of Maine and Georges Bank as part of the U.S. GLOBEC program in 1999. For a complete list of measurements, refer to the full dataset description in the supplemental file 'Dataset_description.pdf'. The most current version of this dataset is available at: https://www.bco-dmo.org/dataset/2413
  • Dataset
    Sea surface temperature, salinity and fluorescence from sensors on R/V Endeavor cruise EN256 in the Gulf of Maine and Georges Bank in October, 1994 as part of the U.S. GLOBEC program (GB project)
    (Biological and Chemical Oceanography Data Management Office (BCO-DMO). Contact: bco-dmo-data@whoi.edu, 2019-08-06) Irish, Jim ; Smith, Peter C.
    Sea surface temperature, salinity and fluorescence from sensors on R/V Endeavor cruise EN256 in the Gulf of Maine and Georges Bank in October, 1994 as part of the U.S. GLOBEC program (GB project) For a complete list of measurements, refer to the full dataset description in the supplemental file 'Dataset_description.pdf'. The most current version of this dataset is available at: https://www.bco-dmo.org/dataset/2410
  • Dataset
    Bedford Institute of Oceanography Moored Current Meter Data deployed during cruises to the Eastern Gulf of Maine/Scotian Shelf from Canadian ships R/V Parizeau and R/V Hudson from 1993-1999 as part of the U.S. GLOBEC Georges Bank project (GB project)
    (Biological and Chemical Oceanography Data Management Office (BCO-DMO). Contact: bco-dmo-data@whoi.edu, 2019-08-05) Smith, Peter C.
    Bedford Institute of Oceanography Moored Current Meter Data deployed during cruises to the Eastern Gulf of Maine/Scotian Shelf from Canadian ships R/V Parizeau and R/V Hudson from 1993-1999 as part of the U.S. GLOBEC Georges Bank project (GB project) For a complete list of measurements, refer to the full dataset description in the supplemental file 'Dataset_description.pdf'. The most current version of this dataset is available at: https://www.bco-dmo.org/dataset/2406
  • Thesis
    The dynamics of bottom boundary currents in the ocean
    (Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, 1973-09) Smith, Peter C.
    This thesis presents an investigation of the dynamics of bottom boundary currents in the ocean. The major emphasis is to develop simple mathematical models in which various dynamical features of these complex geophysical flows may be isolated and explored. Two separate models are formulated and the theoretical results are compared to observational data and/or laboratory experiments. A steady flow over a constant sloping bottom is treated in each model. A streamtube model which describes the variatlon in average cross-sectional properties of the flow is derived to examine the interaction between turbulent entrainment and bottom friction in a rotating stratified fluid. Empirical laws are used to parameterize these processes and the associated entrainment and friction coefficients (Eo,K) are evaluated from data for two bottom currents: the Norwegian Overflow and the Mediterranean Outflow. The ability to fit adequately all observations with the solutions for a single parameter pair demonstrates the dynamical consistency of the streamtube model. The solutions indicate that bottom stresses dominate the frictional drag on the dense fluid layer in the vicinity of the source whereas relatively weak entrainment slowly modulates the flow properties in the downstream region. The combined influence of entrainment and ambient stratification help limit the descent of the Mediterranean Outflow to a depth of approximately 1200 m. while strong friction acting over a long downstream scale allows the flow of Norwegian Sea water to reach the ocean floor. A turbulent Ekman layer model with a constant eddy viscosity is also formulated. The properties of the flow are defined in terms of the layer thickness variable d(x,y), whose governing equation is judged intractable for the general case. However, limiting forms of this equation may be solved when the layer thickness is much less than (weak rotation) or greater than (strong rotation) the Ekman layer length scale. In the weak rotation limit, a similarity soltition is derived which describes the flow field in an intermediate downstream range. Critical measurements in a laboratory experiment are used to establish distinctive properties of rotational perturbations to the viscous flow, such as the antisymmetric corrections to the layer thickness profile and the surface velocity distribution, which depend on downstream distance like y2/7. The constraint of weak rotational effects precludes a meaningful comparison with oceanic bottom currents. The analysis of the strong rotation limit leads to the prediction of an Ekman flux mechanism by which dense fluid is drained from the lower boundary of the thick core of the current and the geostrophic flow is extinguished. The form of a similarity solution for the downstream flow is derived subject to the specification of a single constant by the upstream boundary condition. The results of some exploratory experiments are sufficient to confirm some qualitative aspects of this solution, but transience of the laboratory flow limits a detailed comparison to theory. Some features of the Ekman flux mechanism are noted in the observational data for the Norwegian Overflow.
  • Technical Report
    Mean Eulerian subsurface currents measured in the Gulf of Maine and adjacent Scotian and New England shelf and slope regions, 1974-1980
    (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, 1983-11) Beardsley, Robert C. ; Alessi, Carol A. ; Smith, Peter C. ; Butman, Bradford
    The Bedford Institute of Oceanography, E.G.&G., National Marine Fisheries Service, U.S. Geological Survey, and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution have conducted separate moored array experiments during 1974- 1980 to study various aspects of the regional circulation in the Gulf of Maine and adjacent Scotian and New England shelf and slope regions. The mean currents and current variances measured in these experiments are summarized here in tabular and graphical form, together with other information about each experiment. While there have been few measurements made in the interior of the Gulf of Maine, the map of mean subsurface currents demonstrate (a) a net inflow of Scotian shelf water past Cape Sable into the Gulf, (b) a net inflow of slope water through the Northeast Channel into the Gulf, (c) a partially closed anticyclonic circulation around Georges Bank, and (d) a net outflow of shelf water south of Nantucket from the Gulf of Maine into the New England shelf.
  • Article
    Introduction to special section : U.S. GLOBEC : physical processes on Georges Bank (GLOBEC)
    (American Geophysical Union, 2003-11-18) Beardsley, Robert C. ; Smith, Peter C. ; Lee, Craig M.
  • Dataset
    Event logs from the U.S. GLOBEC Georges Bank project, from 10 vessels and 104 cruises in the Gulf of Maine and Georges Bank area from 1994-1999 (GB project)
    (Biological and Chemical Oceanography Data Management Office (BCO-DMO). Contact: bco-dmo-data@whoi.edu, 2019-02-18) Ashjian, Carin J. ; Bollens, Steve M. ; Bucklin, Ann ; Campbell, Robert ; Davis, Cabell S. ; Durbin, Edward ; Gallager, Scott ; Garrahan, Peter ; Gibson, James ; Gifford, Dian J. ; Green, John ; Greene, Charles H ; Hebert, Dave ; Horgan, Erich ; Houghton, Robert W ; Incze, Lewis ; Irish, Jim ; Ledwell, James R. ; Lentz, Steven J. ; Limeburner, Richard ; Lough, Greg ; Madin, Laurence P. ; Miller, Charles B. ; Mountain, David ; Oakey, Neil ; Schlitz, Ronald ; Sibunka, John ; Smith, Peter C. ; Taylor, Maureen ; Weller, Robert A. ; Wiebe, Peter H. ; Williams, Albert J. ; Wishner, Karen ; Lee, Craig
    Event logs from the U.S. GLOBEC Georges Bank project, from 10 vessels and 104 cruises in the Gulf of Maine and Georges Bank area from 1994-1999. Event logs provide an overall summary of the sampling activities during a cruise. For a complete list of measurements, refer to the full dataset description in the supplemental file 'Dataset_description.pdf'. The most current version of this dataset is available at: https://www.bco-dmo.org/dataset/2321