Access the full text.
Sign up today, get DeepDyve free for 14 days.
Loading next page...
/lp/american-meteorological-society/dense-water-dynamics-along-the-strait-of-sicily-mediterranean-sea-FLA8r6tEgU
References (18)
-
M. Baringer, J. Price (1997)
Momentum and Energy Balance of the Mediterranean OutflowJournal of Physical Oceanography, 27
-
J. Turner (1986)
Turbulent entrainment: the development of the entrainment assumption, and its application to geophysical flowsJournal of Fluid Mechanics, 173
-
T. Kinder, H. Bryden (1990)
Aspiration of Deep Waters through Straits -
M. Baringer, J. Price (1997)
Mixing and Spreading of the Mediterranean OutflowJournal of Physical Oceanography, 27
-
Peter Smith (1975)
A streamtube model for bottom boundary currents in the oceanDeep Sea Research and Oceanographic Abstracts, 22
-
P. Emms (1997)
Streamtube models of gravity currents in the ocean, 44
-
F. Bignami, G. Mattietti, A. Rotundi, E. Salusti (1990)
On a Sugimoto-Whitehead effect in the Mediterranean sea : sinking and mixing of a bottom current in the Bari Canyon, southern Adriatic sea, 37
-
A. Gill (1977)
The hydraulics of rotating-channel flowJournal of Fluid Mechanics, 80
-
E. Salusti, F. Travaglioni (1985)
Currents and countercurrents in straitsOceanologica Acta, 8
-
S. Sparnocchia, G. Gasparini, M. Astraldi, M. Borghini, P. Pistek (1999)
Dynamics and mixing of the Eastern Mediterranean outflow in the Tyrrhenian basinJournal of Marine Systems, 20
-
P. Killworth (1977)
Mixing of the Weddell Sea continental slopeDeep Sea Research, 24
-
D. Chapman, G. Gawarkiewicz (1995)
Offshore transport of dense shelf water in the presence of a submarine canyonJournal of Geophysical Research, 100
-
M. Astraldi, G. Gasparini, S. Sparnocchia, M. Moretti, E. Sansone (1996)
The characteristics of the water masses and the water transport in the Sicily Strait at long time scales -
L. Pratt, H. Deese, S. Murray, W. Johns (2000)
Continuous Dynamical Modes in Straits Having Arbitrary Cross Sections, with Applications to the Bab al Mandab*Journal of Physical Oceanography, 30
-
G. Lane-Serff, D. Smeed, C. Postlethwaite (2000)
Multi-layer hydraulic exchange flowsJournal of Fluid Mechanics, 416
-
Peter Smith (1973)
The dynamics of bottom boundary currents in the ocean. -
T. Ellison, J. Turner (1959)
Turbulent entrainment in stratified flowsJournal of Fluid Mechanics, 6
-
G. Whitham (1955)
The effects of hydraulic resistance in the dam-break problemProceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series A. Mathematical and Physical Sciences, 227
- Publisher
- American Meteorological Society
- Copyright
- Copyright © 2000 American Meteorological Society
- ISSN
- 1520-0485
- DOI
- 10.1175/1520-0485(2001)031<3457:DWDATS>2.0.CO;2
- Publisher site
- See Article on Publisher Site
Abstract
Hydrographic and current meter data, gathered in different periods in the Strait of Sicily and in the southern Tyrrhenian Sea, allow the outflow characteristics from the eastern toward the Western Mediterranean basin to be analyzed. The evolution through the strait of a deep vein of dense water coming from the Eastern Mediterranean is described, together with the dynamic interaction with overlying layers. These data are related to a slightly generalized version of recent density current models, such as those of Emms and those of Baringer and Price. Taking into account the dynamic influence of the overlying currents, and in particular their friction and mixing, this model explains the path of this deep flow and enables estimates of entrainment and bottom friction to be made. With these new data, a phenomenon of considerable interest, namely the dynamics of density currents crossing and outflowing from a strait, is examined and discussed.
Journal
Journal of Physical Oceanography – American Meteorological Society
Published: Jan 2, 2000