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    Cross-shelf and out-of-bay transport driven by an open-ocean current

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    2011-11-01
    Author
    Zhang, Yu  Concept link
    Pedlosky, Joseph  Concept link
    Flierl, Glenn R.  Concept link
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    Citable URI
    https://hdl.handle.net/1912/5023
    As published
    https://doi.org/10.1175/JPO-D-11-08.1
    DOI
    10.1175/JPO-D-11-08.1
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     Baroclinic flows; Eddies; Fronts; Mass fluxes/transport; Mesoscale processes; Topographic effects 
    Abstract
    This paper studies the interaction of an Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC)–like wind-driven channel flow with a continental slope and a flat-bottomed bay-shaped shelf near the channel’s southern boundary. Interaction between the model ACC and the topography in the second layer induces local changes of the potential vorticity (PV) flux, which further causes the formation of a first-layer PV front near the base of the topography. Located between the ACC and the first-layer slope, the newly formed PV front is constantly perturbed by the ACC and in turn forces the first-layer slope with its own variability in an intermittent but persistent way. The volume transport of the slope water across the first-layer slope edge is mostly directly driven by eddies and meanders of the new front, and its magnitude is similar to the maximum Ekman transport in the channel. Near the bay’s opening, the effect of the topographic waves, excited by offshore variability, dominates the cross-isobath exchange and induces a mean clockwise shelf circulation. The waves’ propagation is only toward the west and tends to be blocked by the bay’s western boundary in the narrow-shelf region. The ensuing wave–coast interaction amplifies the wave amplitude and the cross-shelf transport. Because the interaction only occurs near the western boundary, the shelf water in the west of the bay is more readily carried offshore than that in the east and the mean shelf circulation is also intensified along the bay’s western boundary.
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    Author Posting. © American Meteorological Society, 2011. This article is posted here by permission of American Meteorological Society for personal use, not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in Journal of Physical Oceanography 41 (2011): 2168–2186, doi:10.1175/JPO-D-11-08.1.
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    Journal of Physical Oceanography 41 (2011): 2168–2186
     

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