期刊
JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY
卷 44, 期 3, 页码 834-849出版社
AMER METEOROLOGICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1175/JPO-D-13-0179.1
关键词
Circulation; Dynamics; Baroclinic flows; Internal waves; Ocean circulation; Topographic effects; Waves; oceanic; Models and modeling; Numerical analysis; modeling
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资金
- Office of Naval Research (ONR) [N00014-11-1-0701]
- National Science Foundation (NSF) [OCE-1154575]
- NSF [OCE-1060430]
- Directorate For Geosciences
- Division Of Ocean Sciences [1060430] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
A hydrostatic numerical model with alongshore-uniform barotropic M-2 tidal boundary forcing and idealized shelfbreak canyon bathymetries is used to study internal-tide generation and onshore propagation. A control simulation with Mid-Atlantic Bight representative bathymetry is supported by other simulations that serve to identify specific processes. The canyons and adjacent slopes are transcritical in steepness with respect to M-2 internal wave characteristics. Although the various canyons are symmetrical in structure, barotropic-to-baroclinic energy conversion rates C-upsilon are typically asymmetrical within them. The resulting onshore-propagating internal waves are the strongest along beams in the horizontal plane, with the stronger beam in the control simulation lying on the side with higher C-upsilon. Analysis of the simulation results suggests that the cross-canyon asymmetrical C-upsilon distributions are caused by multiple-scattering effects on one canyon side slope, because the phase variation in the spatially distributed internal-tide sources, governed by variations in the orientation of the bathymetry gradient vector, allows resonant internal-tide generation. A less complex, semianalytical, modal internal wave propagation model with sources placed along the critical-slope locus (where the M-2 internal wave characteristic is tangent to the seabed) and variable source phasing is used to diagnose the physics of the horizontal beams of onshore internal wave radiation. Model analysis explains how the cross-canyon phase and amplitude variations in the locally generated internal tides affect parameters of the internal-tide beams. Under the assumption that strong internal tides on continental shelves evolve to include nonlinear wave trains, the asymmetrical internal-tide generation and beam radiation effects may lead to nonlinear internal waves and enhanced mixing occurring preferentially on one side of shelfbreak canyons, in the absence of other influencing factors.
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