Below the sill depth (at about 2400m) of the Alpha-Mendeleyev ridge complex, the waters of the Canada Basin (CB) of the Arctic Ocean are isolated, with a C isolation age of about 500 yr. The potential temperature y decreases with depth to a minimum ymE 0:524 C near 2400m, increases with depth through an approximately 300m thick transition layer to yhE 0.514 C, and then remains uniform from abou...

We consider a coupled system of two singularly perturbed reactiondiffusion equations, with two small parameters 0 < ε ≤ μ ≤ 1, each multiplying the highest derivative in the equations. The presence of these parameters causes the solution(s) to have boundary layers which overlap and interact, based on the relative size of ε and μ. We show how one can construct full asymptotic expansions together...

The climatological seasonal cycle of sea surface temperature (SST) in the tropical Pacific is simulated using a newly developed upper ocean model. The roles of vertical mixing, solar radiation, and wind stress are investigated in a hierarchy of numerical experiments with various combinations of vertical mixing algorithms and surface-forcing products. It is found that the large SST annual cycle ...

[1] Efforts to understand and model the dynamics of the upper ocean would be significantly advanced given the ability to rapidly determine mixed layer depths (MLDs) over large regions. Remote sensing technologies are an ideal choice for achieving this goal. This study addresses the feasibility of estimating MLDs from optical properties. These properties are strongly influenced by suspended part...

Abstract Steel sheet pile walls are being widely used in civil engineering projects for support systems. Soil is not uniform in depth, sometimes may be exit loose or soft soil layer in various depth. This issue can cause different effects on ground surface displacements, forces and moments acting on sheet piles and struts during excavation procedure, compared with status that soil is uniform...

the entrainment of a stably stratified layer into a turbulent mixed layer in a confined region has been studied in the laboratory for different richardson numbers, ri. the results include direct observation of turbulent characteristics and density measurements using two high precision salinity meters. the measurements include turbulence intensity, scale of eddies near the interface and energy s...

Qualitative comparison between observed and simulated fields over the Labrador Sea is performed. The model simulates the observed mean horizontal circulations of the surface cyclonic subpolar gyre and the mid-depth (~ 700 m) cyclonic recirculations. The distribution of the eddy kinetic energy shows good agreement with the observed evidence over the surface in annual average. The model captures ...

The dissolved methane (CH4) plume rising from the crater of the blowout well 22/4b in the Central North Sea was mapped during stratified water column conditions. Geochemical surveys were conducted close to the seafloor at 80.3 m water depth, below the thermocline (61.1 m), and in the mixed surface layer (13.2 m) using membrane inlet mass spectrometry (MIMS) in combination with a towed CTD. Seaw...