Internal Tides and Mixing in a Submarine Canyon with Time-Varying Stratification

被引:49
作者
Zhao, Zhongxiang [1 ]
Alford, Matthew H. [1 ,2 ]
Lien, Ren-Chieh [1 ,2 ]
Gregg, Michael C. [1 ,2 ]
Carter, Glenn S. [3 ]
机构
[1] Univ Washington, Appl Phys Lab, Seattle, WA 98105 USA
[2] Univ Washington, Sch Oceanog, Seattle, WA 98105 USA
[3] Univ Hawaii Manoa, Dept Oceanog, Honolulu, HI 96822 USA
基金
美国国家科学基金会;
关键词
MONTEREY BAY; BAROCLINIC TIDES; WAVE PROPAGATION; GLOBAL PATTERNS; ENERGY; REFLECTION; ENERGETICS; TURBULENCE; OVERTURNS; CURRENTS;
D O I
10.1175/JPO-D-12-045.1
中图分类号
P7 [海洋学];
学科分类号
0707 ;
摘要
The time variability of the energetics and turbulent dissipation of internal tides in the upper Monterey Submarine Canyon (MSC) is examined with three moored profilers and five ADCP moorings spanning February-April 2009. Highly resolved time series of velocity, energy, and energy flux are all dominated by the semidiurnal internal tide and show pronounced spring-neap cycles. However, the onset of springtime upwelling winds significantly alters the stratification during the record, causing the thermocline depth to shoal from about 100 to 40 m. The time-variable stratification must be accounted for because it significantly affects the energy, energy flux, the vertical modal structures, and the energy distribution among the modes. The internal tide changes from a partly horizontally standing wave to a more freely propagating wave when the thermocline shoals, suggesting more reflection from up canyon early in the observational record. Turbulence, computed from Thorpe scales, is greatest in the bottom 50-150 m and shows a spring-neap cycle. Depth-integrated dissipation is 3 times greater toward the end of the record, reaching 60 mW m(-2) during the last spring tide. Dissipation near a submarine ridge is strongly tidally modulated, reaching 10(-5) W kg(-1) (10-15-m overturns) during spring tide and appears to be due to breaking lee waves. However, the phasing of the breaking is also affected by the changing stratification, occurring when isopycnals are deflected downward early in the record and upward toward the end.
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页码:2121 / 2142
页数:22
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