On the upwelling of downwelling currents

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 38, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 2482-2500

  Matano, Ricardo P ^a   Palma, Elbio D ^b  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DEL SUR   (Argentina)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOTTOM BOUNDARY LAYERS; BOTTOM FRICTIONS; BUOYANCY FLUXES; CONTINENTAL SLOPES; CROSS-SHELF CIRCULATIONS; CURRENT FLOWS; DOWN-WELLING; DOWNSLOPE; LATERAL DIFFUSIONS; MASS FLUXES; NORTHERN HEMISPHERES; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; PROCESS-ORIENTED; SLOPE CURRENTS; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERES; UPWELLING REGIMES; VOLUME TRANSPORTS;

AERODYNAMICS; ATMOSPHERICS; PACKED BEDS; PRESSURE GRADIENT;

BOUNDARY LAYERS;

BOUNDARY LAYER; BUOYANCY FORCING; CONTINENTAL SLOPE; DOWNWELLING; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; OCEANIC CURRENT; SHELF BREAK; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; UPWELLING; VOLUME TRANSPORT;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; MALVINAS CURRENT; OYASHIO CURRENT; PACIFIC OCEAN; SOUTHLAND CURRENT;

EID: 58949096604     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2008JPO3783.1     Document Type: Article

References (39)

1. Acha, E. M., H. W. Mianzan, R. A. Guerrero, M. Favero, and J. Bava, 2004: Marine fronts at the continental shelves of austral South America: Physical and ecological processes. J. Mar. Syst., 44, 83-105.
2. Blumberg, A. F., and G. L. Mellor, 1987: A description of a three dimensional coastal ocean circulation model. Three-Dimensional Coastal Ocean Models, N. Heaps, Ed., Vol. 4, Coastal Estuarine Science, Amer. Geophys. Union, 1-16.
3. Bogazzi, E., and Coauthors, 2005: Spatial correspondence between areas of concentration of Patagonian scallop and frontal systems in the southwestern Atlantic. Fish. Oceanogr., 14, 359-376.
4. Campagna, C., F. Quintana, B. J. Le Boeuf, S. B. Blackwell, and D. E. Crocker, 1998: Diving behaviour and foraging ecology of female southern elephant seals from Patagonia. Aquat. Mamm., 24, 1-11.
5. Campos, E. J. D., D. Velhote, and I. C. A. da Silveira, 2000: Shelf break upwelling driven by Brazil Current cyclonic meanders. Geophys. Res. Lett., 27, 751-754.
6. Chapman, D. C., 1986: A simple model of the formation and maintenance of the shelf/slope in the Middle Atlantic Bight. J. Phys. Oceanogr., 16, 1273-1279.
7. Chapman, D. C., 2000: A numerical study of the adjustment of a narrow stratified current over a sloping bottom. J. Phys. Oceanogr., 30, 2927-2940.
8. Chapman, D. C., 2002: Sensitivity of a model shelfbreak front to the parameterization of vertical mixing. J. Phys. Oceanogr., 32, 3291-3298.
9. Chapman, D. C., and S. J. Lentz, 1994: Trapping of a coastal density front by the bottom boundary layer. J. Phys. Oceanogr., 24, 1464-1479.
10. Chapman, D. C., and S. J. Lentz, 1997: Adjustment of stratified flow over a sloping bottom. J. Phys. Oceanogr., 27, 340-356.
11. Csanady, G. T., 1978: The arrested topographic wave. J. Phys. Oceanogr., 8, 47-62.
12. Garcia, V. M. T., C. A. E. Garcia, M. M. Mata, R. C. Pollery, A. R. Piola, S. R. Signorini, C. R. McClain, and M. D. Iglesias-Rodriguez, 2008: Environmental factors controlling the phytoplankton blooms at the Patagonia shelf-break in spring. Deep-Sea Res., 55, 1150-1166.
13. Garrett, C., P. MacCready, and P. Rhines, 1993: Boundary mixing and arrested Ekman layers: Rotating stratified flow near a sloping boundary. Annu. Rev. Fluid Mech., 25, 291-323.
14. Gawarkiewicz, G., and D. C. Chapman, 1992: The role of stratification in the formation and maintenance of shelfbreak fronts. J. Phys. Oceanogr., 22, 753-772.
15. Hill, A. E., 1995: Leakage of barotropic slope current onto the continental shelf. J. Phys. Oceanogr., 25, 1617-1621.
16. Houghton, R., 1997: Lagrangian flow at the foot of a shelfbreak front using a dye tracer injected into the bottom boundary layer. Geophys. Res. Lett., 24, 2035-2038.
17. Houghton, R., and M. Visbeck, 1998: Upwelling and convergence in the Middle Atlantic Bight shelf break front. Geophys. Res. Lett., 25, 2765-2768.
18. Lasta, M. L., and C. Bremec, 1998: Zygochlamys patagonica in the Argentine Sea: A new scallop fishery. J. Shellfish Res., 17, 103-111.
19. Loder, J., B. Petrie, and G. Gawarkiewicz, 1998: The coastal ocean off northeastern North America: A large-scale view. The Sea, A. R. Robinson and K. H. Brink, Eds., Vol. 11, The Global Coastal Ocean, Wiley, 105-133.
20. MacCready, P., and P. B. Rhines, 1993: Slippery bottom boundary layers on a slope. J. Phys. Oceanogr., 23, 5-22.
21. Mellor, G. L., and T. Yamada, 1982: Development of a turbulent closure model for geophysical fluid problems. Rev. Geophys. Space Phys., 20, 851-868.
22. Middleton, J. F., and D. Ramsden, 1996: The evolution of the bottom boundary layer on the sloping continental shelf: A numerical study. J. Geophys. Res., 101, 18 061-18 077.
23. Palma, E. D., and R. P. Matano, 1998: On the implementation of open boundary conditions to a general circulation model: The barotropic mode. J. Geophys. Res., 103, 1319-1341.
24. Palma, E. D., and R. P. Matano, 2000: On the implementation of open boundary conditions for a general circulation model: The threedimensional case. J. Geophys. Res., 105, 8605-8627.
25. Palma, E. D., R. P. Matano, and A. R. Piola, 2004: A numerical study of the Southwestern Atlantic Shelf circulation: Barotropic response to tidal and wind forcing. J. Geophys. Res., 109, C08014, doi:10.1029/2004JC002315.
26. Peterson, R. G., 1992: The boundary currents in the western Argentine Basin. Deep-Sea Res., 39, 623-644.
27. Pickart, R. S., 2000: Bottom boundary layer structure and detachment in the shelfbreak jet of the Middle Atlantic Bight. J. Phys. Ocenogr., 30, 2668-2686.
28. Piola, A. R., and R. P. Matano, 2001: The South Atlantic Western Boundary Currents Brazil/Falkland (Malvinas) Currents. Vol. 1, Encyclopedia of Ocean Sciences, Academic Press, 340-349.
29. Ramsden, D., 1995: Response of an oceanic bottom boundary layer on a slope to interior flow. Part I: Time-independent interior flow. J. Phys. Ocenogr., 25, 1672-1687.
30. Rhines, P. B., 1970: Edge-, bottom-, and Rossby waves in a rotating stratified fluid. Geophys. Fluid Dyn., 1, 273-302.
31. Rodhouse, P. G., C. D. Elvidge, and P. N. Trathan, 2001: Remote sensing of the global light-fishing fleet: An analysis of interactions with oceanography, other fisheries and predators. Adv. Mar. Biol., 39, 261-303.
32. Romero, S. I., A. R. Piola, M. Charo, and C. A. E. Garcia, 2006: Chlorophyll-a variability off Patagonia based on SeaWIFS data. J. Geophys. Res., 111, C05021, doi:10.1029/2005JC003244.
33. Smagorinsky, J., 1963: General circulation experiments with the primitive equations, I. The basic experiment. Mon. Wea. Rev., 91, 99-164.
34. Sutton, P. J. H., 2003: The Southland Current: A subantarctic current. N. Z. J. Mar. Freshwater Res., 37, 645-652.
35. Trowbridge, J. H., and S. J. Lentz, 1991: Asymmetric behavior of an oceanic boundary layer above a sloping bottom. J. Phys. Oceanogr., 21, 1171-1185.
36. Trowbridge, J. H., and S. J. Lentz, 1998: Dynamics of the bottom boundary layer on the northern California shelf. J. Phys. Oceanogr., 21, 1171-1185.
37. Vivier, F., and C. Provost, 1999: Volume transport of the Malvinas Current: Can the flow be monitored by TOPEX/POSEIDON? J. Geophys. Res., 104, 21 105-21 122.
38. Wang, D.-P., 1982: Effects of continental slope on the mean shelf circulation. J. Phys. Oceanogr., 19, 532-541.
39. Wright, D. G., 1986: On quasi-steady shelf circulation driven by along-shelf wind stress and open ocean pressure gradients. J. Phys. Oceanogr., 16, 1712-1714.