Dynamic Height and Seawater Transport Across the Louisiana-Texas Shelf Break. Final Report

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dc.acquisition-srcen_US
dc.call-noGC 521 .C8774 2000 GBAYen_US
dc.contract-noMMS Contract 14-35-0001-30660-19948en_US
dc.contributor.authorCurrent, Carole L. and William J. Wiseman, Jr.en_US
dc.contributor.otheren_US
dc.date.accessioned2010-02-15T17:20:13Z
dc.date.available2010-02-15T17:20:13Z
dc.date.issued2000en_US
dc.degreeen_US
dc.description45 pgs.en_US
dc.description-otheren_US
dc.description.abstractOur study quantifies time dependent, highly vertically resolved geostrophic transport of waters from the Gulf of Mexico across the Louisiana-Texas continental shelf break, and provides a first order picture of the spatial and temporal variability of shelf break exchange processes. Cross-shelf transport is large, and consistent with the findings of Bender and Reid. The annual volume of water transported off the shelf across the shelf break is approximately equal to the total volume of water on the shelf.... The present study begins with the determination of orthogonal patters of pressure anomaly that are characteristic of geostrophic flow, computed from LATEX-A field hydrography and assumed dynamics of the system. Shelf break mooring data then is projected onto these patterns of variability, which are called dynamic vertical structure functions or dynamic modes (Kundu et al. 1975; Flierl 1978; SAIC 1989; Arango and Reid 1990; Current 1993). Estimates of time varying pressure anomaly profiles and dynamic height are produced by the summation of weighted dynamic modes, and estimation of cross-shelf geostrophic transport follows from these profiles by invoking geostrophic balance.en_US
dc.description.urihttp://gbic.tamug.edu/request.htmen_US
dc.geo-codeLouisianaen_US
dc.geo-codeTexasen_US
dc.geo-codeUnited Statesen_US
dc.history10/7/04 easen_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1969.3/23886
dc.latitudeen_US
dc.locationGBIC Circulating Collectionen_US
dc.longitudeen_US
dc.notesen_US
dc.placeNew Orleans, LAen_US
dc.publisherU.S. Department of the Interior, Minerals Management Service, Gulf of Mexico OCS Regionen_US
dc.relation.ispartofseries5224.00en_US
dc.relation.urien_US
dc.scaleen_US
dc.seriesOCS Study; MMS 2000-045en_US
dc.subjectcontinental shelfen_US
dc.subjectoceanographyen_US
dc.subjectgulf of mexicoen_US
dc.subjectmathematical modelsen_US
dc.subjectocean circulationen_US
dc.subjectocean currentsen_US
dc.titleDynamic Height and Seawater Transport Across the Louisiana-Texas Shelf Break. Final Reporten_US
dc.typeBooken_US
dc.universityen_US
dc.vol-issueen_US

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