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An investigation of vertical structure in shelf circulation
| Title: | An investigation of vertical structure in shelf circulation. |
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| Name(s): | Smith, Ned P., creator | |
| Type of Resource: | text | |
| Genre: | Article | |
| Issuance: | single unit | |
| Date Issued: | 1979 | |
| Publisher: | American Meteorological Society (AMS) | |
| Extent: | 8 p. | |
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| Language(s): | English | |
| Identifier: | 3332098 (digitool), FADT3332098 (IID), fau:6166 (fedora) | |
| Note(s): |
Recording current meter data from four levels are used to describe the vertical structure of the circulation of mid shelf waters 33 m deep off the central Texas Gulf coast. Resultant current velocity vectors for the 41-day study indicate a strong onshore mass flux past the study site, with the cross-isobath deflection increasing with height above the bottom. Both the resultant current speed and direction vary approximately linearly when plotted against the natural log of the depth. Statistically significant coherences are computed for time scales in excess of one day for longshore motion through the lowest three-fourths of the water column, and for both longshore and cross-shelf motion in a layer 7 m thick just above mid depth. Permission to use figures, tables, and brief excerpts from this work in scientific and educational works is hereby granted provided that the source is acknowledged. Any use of material in this work that is determined to be “fair use” under Section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Act or that satisfies the conditions specified in Section 108 of the U.S. Copyright Act (17USC §108, as revised by P.L. 94-553) does not require the AMS’s permission. Republication, systematic reproduction, posting in electronic form, such as on a web site or in a searchable database, or other uses of this material, except as exempted by the above statement, requires written permission or a license from the AMS. Additional details are provided in the AMS Copyright Policy, available on the AMS Web site located at (http://www.ametsoc.org/) or from the AMS at 617-227-2425 or copyright@ametsoc.org. This is the final published version of an article available at http://journals.ametsoc.org/ and may be cited as: Smith, N. P. (1979). An investigation of vertical structure in shelf circulation. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 9(3), 624-630. doi:10.1175/1520-0485(1979)009<0624:AIOVSI>2.0.CO;2 Florida Atlantic University. Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute contribution #135. |
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| Subject(s): |
Ocean circulation Continental shelf--Gulf Coast (U.S.) Water currents--Measurement |
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| Persistent Link to This Record: | http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/3332098 | |
| Links: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/1520-0485(1979)009%3C0624:AIOVSI%3E2.0.CO;2 | |
| Restrictions on Access: | ©1979 American Meteorological Society (AMS) | |
| Host Institution: | FAU |
