Thermocline mixing in summer stratified continental shelf seas

Layered mixing on the New England Shelf in summer

Key Laboratory of Ocean Circulation and Waves, Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao, China, Laboratory of Physical Oceanography, College of Physical and Environmental Oceanography, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, China, Bedford Institute of Oceanography, Fisheries and Oceans of Canada, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada, Oceanography Department, Naval Postgraduate Schoo...

Broadband cloaking in stratified seas.

Here we show that floating objects in stratified fluids can be cloaked against broadband incident waves by properly architecting the bottom corrugations. The presented invisibility cloaking of gravity waves is achieved utilizing a nonlinear resonance concept that occurs between surface and internal waves mediated by the bottom topography. Our cloak bends wave rays from the surface into the body...

Thermocline mixing and vertical oxygen fluxes in the stratified central North Sea

In recent decades, the central North Sea has been experiencing a general trend of decreasing dissolved oxygen (O2) levels during summer. To understand potential causes driving lower O2, we investigated a 3-day period of summertime turbulence and O2 dynamics in the thermocline and bottom boundary layer (BBL). The study focuses on coupling biogeochemical with physical transport processes to ident...

Describing Summer Pelagic Habitat Over the Continental Shelf in the Eastern Bering Sea, 1982-2006

The continental shelf of the eastern Bering Sea (EBS) is highly productive, supporting some of the most valuable finand shellfish fisheries in the United States as well as large, local and migratory, populations of seabirds and marine mammals. Temperature and hydrographic structure are important components to the pelagic and epibenthic habitat that influence the distribution, behavior and inter...

Numerical study on the summer upwelling system in the northern continental shelf of the South China