Ekman transport
Seasonal variability of the Ekman transport and pumping in the upwelling system off central-northern Chile ( 30 S) based on a high-resolution atmospheric regional model (WRF)
... respectively. Ekman pumping spatial pattern presents maximum values very close to the coast, pri- marily north of Punta Lengua de Vaca, inside the Coquimbo Bay system ...maximum Ekman pumping, highlighting ...
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On the seasonal cycles and variability of Florida Straits, Ekman and Sverdrup transports at 26 N in the Atlantic Ocean
... Straits transport appears to adjust to changes in wind stress curl over the sub-tropical gyre (Anderson and Corry, 1985b; DiNezio et ...circulation. Ekman transport at 24 ◦ N has a weak seasonal ...
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Decadal Evolution of Ocean Thermal Anomalies in the North Atlantic: The Effects of Ekman, Overturning, and Horizontal Transport
... volume transport (Sv) separated into the vertical cell (MOC, black) integrated over the upper 1300 m and the surface Ekman transport over the upper 20 m (green); depth-integrated heat ...
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Atlantic transport variability at 25 N in six hydrographic sections
... mid-ocean transport variability associ- ated with inter-annual Ekman and Florida Straits transport variability in the hydrographic sections (where mass balance is maintained through the application ...
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The partitioning of poleward energy transport response between the atmosphere and Ekman flux to prescribed surface forcing in a simplified GCM
... energy transport ensures that the atmosphere and ocean split the cross- equatorial energy transport load, leading to a damped ITCZ ...face Ekman flow in ...of Ekman transport that was ...
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Oceanic Bottom Boundary Layers and Abyssal Overturning Circulation
... cross-slope Ekman transport can advect buoyancy surfaces in a bottom boundary layer (BBL) so as to produce vertically-sheared geostrophic flows that bring the total flow to rest: a process known as buoyancy ...
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Ekman currents in the Antarctic circumpolar current
... and Ekman current from a variety of angles. Ekman transport and dynamic instability were largely confined to the mixed layer; while superficially suggestive of ‘surface trapping’ of the Ekman ...
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On the meridional ageostrophic transport in the tropical Atlantic
... The Ekman transport estimated by integrating the ageostrophic velocity zonally through the section and verti- cally to the local TTP depth is ...ageostrophic Ekman transport is not ...
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Decadal Evolution of Ocean Thermal Anomalies in the North Atlantic: The Effects of Ekman, Overturning, and Horizontal Transport
... into Ekman and MOC transport minus Ekman transport (MOC-Ekman) ...the Ekman heat convergence, while the subpolar thermal anomalies are controlled by the MOC-Ekman heat ...
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Effect of winds and waves on salt intrusion in the Pearl River estuary
... Abstract. Salt intrusion in the Pearl River estuary (PRE) is a dynamic process that is influenced by a range of factors and to date, few studies have examined the effects of winds and waves on salt intrusion in the PRE. ...
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On wind-driven mid-latitude convection in ocean general circulation models
... directed Ekman transport of Antarctic and Subantarctic origin surface water as a mechanism which forces mid-latitude ...wind-driven transport of water in the surface layer is most efficient at ...
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Report on the WGOMD Workshop on Southern Ocean Modelling, Hobart, Australia, 9 10 November 2005
... Model studies, for example using the FRAM results, show that on average, subduction occurs in a fairly narrow band near 40 degrees south. Detailed studies of subduction on a global scale have yet to be carried out but ...
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Wind causes Totten Ice Shelf melt and acceleration
... classical Ekman dynamics that positive zonal wind anomalies should induce upwelling of warm deep water near ...southward transport of surface water, depress isotherms, and could therefore prevent mCDW from ...
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Wavefields forced by long obstacles on a beta-plane
... and Ekman numbers: α, the ratio of the β-effect to Ekman pumping destruction of vorticity; λ, the ratio of advection to Ekman pumping; and L, the ratio of the along-stream length to cross-stream ...
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Numerical study of Ekman boundary layer and heat transfer in porous medium using Keller-Box
... the Ekman layer caused by winds blowing across the sea's surface, the viscosity coefficient is not dependent on ...the Ekman layer is horizontal boundary layer in a rotating ...
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Ekman layers in the Southern Ocean: spectral models and observations, vertical viscosity and boundary layer depth
... In contrast, boundary layer models, such as KPP, that ex- plicitly incorporate buoyancy forcing deposit momentum to a “surface layer” or shallowest layer. Then, the depth over which the vertical viscosity is enhanced by ...
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Facial Emotional Perception Training for Medical Students
... Introduction: The aim of this study was to determine the applicability and efficacy of a tool for improving medical students’ ability to recognize the fa- cial expressions of emotions. Material and methods: We conducted ...
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Tables of adiabatic cooling of sea water
... The aooompanylag tables are based on Ekman/s 19O8 data on the Gompreasibillty of sea-nater and on Cox and Smith's 195$ values for the speoifio heat of sea-water at atmospheric pressure..[r] ...
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Visualized Emotion Ontology: a model for representing visual cues of emotions
... The first step in understanding emotions is to define what, exactly, an emotion is. According to Paul Ekman, emotions correspond to six universal facial expressions: joy, sadness, anger, disgust, fear, and ...
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Influence of frontal cyclone evolution on the 2009 (Ekman) and 2010 (Franklin) Loop Current eddy detachment events
... The detachments of the LCE rings from the main LC sys- tem during the two study periods are apparent in both model simulations and AVISO satellite altimetry products (Fig. 3); these satellite altimetry data are also not ...
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