Marine & Environmental Sciences Faculty Articles
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
5-6-2003
Publication Title
Geophysical Research Letters
Keywords
Internal and inertial waves, Western boundary currents, Nearshore processes
ISSN
0094-8276
Volume
30
Issue/No.
9
First Page
1
Last Page
4
Abstract
Historical and recent data reveal a very energetic regime on the shelf off southeast Florida. In addition to spin off eddies, large-amplitude tidal velocity fluctuations with amplitudes exceeding 0.5 ms−1 are observed. Recent exploratory measurements conducted as a part of the South Florida Ocean Measurement Center (SFOMC) show that the time scale of these oscillations is about 10 hrs. This period does not coincide either with the inertial period (27 Hrs) or with the semidiurnal M2 (12.42 hrs) or S2 (12 hrs) tidal constituents. In addition, these internal oscillations appear to be modulated seasonally. A possible explanation is that these oscillations are near-resonant internal seiches generated by barotropic tidal wave in the channel between Florida and Bahamas.
Additional Comments
ONR award #: N00014-98-1-0861 via FAU subcontract: NR993797-305; ONR grant #: N00014-02-1-0950
NSUWorks Citation
Alexander Soloviev, Mark E. Luther, and Robert H. Weisberg. 2003. Energetic Baroclinic Super-Tidal Oscillations on the Southeast Florida shelf .Geophysical Research Letters , (9) : 1 -4. https://nsuworks.nova.edu/occ_facarticles/625.
ORCID ID
0000-0001-6519-1547
DOI
10.1029/2002GL016603
Comments
An edited version of this paper was published by AGU. Copyright 2003 American Geophysical Union.
Soloviev, A. V., M. E. Luther, and R. H. Weisberg, Energetic baroclinic super-tidal oscillations on the southeast Florida shelf, Geophys. Res. Lett., 30(9), 1463, doi:10.1029/2002GL016603, 2003. To view the published open abstract, go to http://dx.doi.org and enter the DOI.