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JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY
卷 43, 期 1, 页码 120-139出版社
AMER METEOROLOGICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1175/JPO-D-12-030.1
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- National Science Foundation [OCE-0350543, OCE-0350647]
Observations of breaking internal tides on the Oregon continental slope during a 40-day deployment of 5 moorings along 43 degrees 12'N are presented. Remotely generated internal tides shoal onto the slope, steepen, break, and form turbulent bores that propagate upslope independently of the internal tide. A high-resolution snapshot of a single bore is captured from lowered acoustic Doppler current profilers (LADCP)/CTD profiles in a 25-h time series at 1200 m. The bore is cold, salty, over 100 m tall, and has a turbulent head where instantaneous dissipation rates are enhanced (epsilon > 10(-6) W kg(-1)) and sediment is resuspended. At the two deepest slope moorings (1452 and 1780 m), similar borelike phenomena are observed in near-bottom high-resolution temperature time series. Mean dissipation rates and diapycnal diffusivities increase by a factor of 2 when bores are present (epsilon(-bores) > 10(-8) W kg(-1) and (K) over bar (bores)(rho) > 10(-3) m s(-1)) and observed internal tides are energetic enough to drive these enhanced dissipation rates. Globally, the authors estimate an average of 1.3 kW m(-1) of internal tide energy flux is directed onto continental slopes. On the Oregon slope, internal tide fluxes are smaller, suggesting that it is a relatively weak internal tide sink. Mixing associated with the breaking of internal tides is therefore likely to be larger on other continental slopes.
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