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JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY
卷 38, 期 9, 页码 1949-1964出版社
AMER METEOROLOGICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1175/2008JPO3777.1
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- NSF [OCE-98-19529]
- ONR [N00014-05-1-0546]
- Office of Naval Research [N00014-03-1-0336]
- National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, U. S. Department of Commerce [NA17RJ2612]
Recent observations from the Hawaiian Ridge indicate episodes of overturning and strong dissipation coupled with the tidal cycle near the top of the ridge. Simulations with realistic topography and stratification suggest that this overturning has its origins in transient internal hydraulic jumps that occur below the shelf break at maximum ebb tide, and then propagate up the slope as internal bores when the flow reverses. A series of numerical simulations explores the parameter space of topographic slope, barotropic velocity, stratification, and forcing frequency to identify the parameter regime in which these internal jumps are possible. Theoretical analysis predicts that the tidally driven jumps may occur when the vertical tidal excursion is large, which is shown to imply steep topographic slopes, such that dh/dxN/omega > 1. The vertical length scale of the jumps is predicted to depend on the flow speed such that the jump Froude number is of order unity. The numerical results agree with the theoretical predictions, with finite-amplitude internal hydraulic jumps and overturning forming during strong offslope tidal flow over steep slopes. These results suggest that internal hydraulic jumps may be an important mechanism for local tidally generated mixing at tall steep topography.
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