{"title":"Interannual variations of water mass volumes in the Southern Ocean","authors":"M. Tomczak, S. Liefrink","doi":"10.1080/17417530500062838","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17417530500062838","url":null,"abstract":"Water mass volumes in the Southern Ocean are evaluated in a section between Antarctica and Tasmania for the period 1991-1996. Antarctic Bottom Water consisted of Weddell Sea Bottom Water and water formed along the Adelie Coast. The volume of the Adelie Coast component was found to decrease slightly over the observation period, while the volume of the Weddell Sea component remained unchanged. The volume of Circumpolar Deep Water increased slightly, with a pronounced trend toward Lower at the expense of Upper Circumpolar Deep Water. The volumes of Antarctic Surface Water, Western South Pacific Central Water, Subantarctic Mode Water, Antarctic Intermediate Water and Antarctic Bottom Water were smaller by up to one order of magnitude but their variations relative to their volumes were significant.","PeriodicalId":315917,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Atmospheric & Ocean Science","volume":"54 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116418867","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Directional measurements of wave growth in a short and narrow fetch geometry","authors":"H. Pettersson, K. Kahma","doi":"10.1080/17417530500062853","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17417530500062853","url":null,"abstract":"The growth of young waves along a narrow bay and their directional spectra were studied. The fetch geometry was found to affect the shape of the spectrum already when the waves were young. When compared to the growth from a straight shoreline, the dimensionless energy was reduced, but the change in dimensionless peak frequency was smaller. The behaviour of the young waves was similar to that of the mature waves but the differences between narrow and broad fetch geometries were smaller, which suggests that due to a stronger nonlinear transfer the young waves are less sensitive to the fetch geometry. The directional spectrum of the young waves in the narrow fetch geometry was narrower at all energy containing frequencies than the spectra from broad fetch geometry, which further supports the conclusion that the shape of the spectrum is not independent of the fetch geometry.","PeriodicalId":315917,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Atmospheric & Ocean Science","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129621174","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Observed variations in air-sea exchange processes over Somali basin during monsoons 1988 and 1991","authors":"S. Nagar, U. Iyer, P. Seetaramayya","doi":"10.1080/17417530500092157","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17417530500092157","url":null,"abstract":"In the north Indian Ocean, the Somali basin off the East coast of Africa (0°–15°N and 50°E–70°E) is well known for cold eddy pools and gyres during the height of the northern summer monsoon (July–September). One such well-known cold gyre that generally encircles this region is known as the “Great Whirl”. This Great Whirl is generally observed over an area 4°N–10°N, 52°E–58°E during August and September. The sea surface temperature (SST) at its centre ranges between 22 and 25°C depending upon the monsoon wind forcing. In this article, we report two case studies regarding the variability of the surface marine meteorological parameters and the surface fluxes over the Somali basin using three-hourly surface marine meteorological data collected under the Joint INDO-USSR Monsoon Experiment during August and September MONSOON-88 and MONSOON-91. The observations have shown that the centres of the Great Whirl are observed almost at the same location (i.e., 8.1°N, 56.2°E in 1988 and 8.7°N, 55.9°E in 1991) for both ...","PeriodicalId":315917,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Atmospheric & Ocean Science","volume":"68 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-02-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131898563","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Atmospheric forcing of ocean dynamics along the Iberian Atlantic margin","authors":"M. Gesteira, R. Neves, V. Pérez‐Muñuzuri","doi":"10.1080/17417530601127837","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17417530601127837","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":315917,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Atmospheric & Ocean Science","volume":"58 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124177348","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}