Variability of the semidiurnal internal tides observed on the Timor Shelf

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 115, Issue 10, 2010, Pages

  Katsumata, K ^a   Wijffels, S E ^b   Steinberg, C R ^c   Brinkman, R ^c  

^a JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

^c AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MOORING; TIDAL POWER; TOPOGRAPHY; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

AUSTRALIA; BAROTROPIC; BAROTROPIC TIDES; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; ENERGY DENSITY; ENERGY FLUXES; FLOW VARIATIONS; GAUSS-MARKOV; INTERANNUAL TIME SCALE; INTERNAL TIDES; ISLAND TOPOGRAPHY; LENGTH SCALE; MEAN VALUES; P-VALUES; SEASONAL VARIATION; SLOPING BOTTOM; STANDARD DEVIATION; STEEP TOPOGRAPHY; TEMPERATURE STRATIFICATION; TIDAL FORCING; VERTICAL MODES; WATER COLUMNS;

TIDES;

BAROTROPIC TIDE; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; ENERGY FLUX; INTERNAL TIDE; LINEARITY; MARKOV CHAIN; MOORING SYSTEM; SEMIDIURNAL TIDE; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TIMESCALE; TOPOGRAPHY; VELOCITY; WATER COLUMN; WAVELENGTH;

AUSTRALIA; LESSER SUNDA ISLANDS; SUNDA ISLES; TIMOR;

EID: 77957745736     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009JC006071     Document Type: Article

References (51)

1. Baines, P. G. (1973), The generation of internal tides by flat-bump topography, Deep Sea Res. Oceanogr. Abstr., 20, 179-205.
2. Baines, P. G. (1974), The generation of internal tides over step continental slopes, Philos. Trans. R. Soc. London A, 277, 27-58.
3. Bell, J. T. H. (1975), Topographically generated internal waves in the open ocean, J. Geophys. Res., 80, 320-327.
4. Bray, N., S. E. Wijffels, J. Chong, M. Fieux, S. Hautala, G. Meyers, and W. M. L. Morawitz (1997), Characteristics of the Indo-Pacific throughflow in the eastern Indian Ocean, Geophys. Res. Lett, 24, 2569-2572.
5. Chelton, D., R. De Szoeke, K. E. N. M. Schlax, and N. Siwertz (1998), Geographical variability of the first baroclinic Rossby radius of deformation, J. Phys. Oceanogr., 28, 433-460.
6. Craig, P. D. (1987), Solutions for internal tidal generation over coastal topography, J. Mar. Res., 45, 83-105.
7. Craig, P. D. (1988), A numerical model study of internal tides on the Australian Northwest Shelf, J. Mar. Res., 46, 59-76.
8. Craig, P. D. (1991), Incorporation of damping into internal wave models, Cont Shelf Res., 11, 563-577.
9. Cummins, P. F., and L.-Y. Oey (1997), Simulation of barotropic and baroclinic tides off northern British Columbia, J. Phys. Oceanogr., 27, 762-781.
10. Cummins, P. F., J. Y. Cherniawksy, and M. G. G. Foreman (2001), North Pacific internal tides from the Aleutian Ridge: Altimeter observations and modeling, J. Mar. Res., 59, 167-191.
11. Egbert, G., and S. Erofeeva (2002), Efficient inverse modeling of barotropic ocean tides, J. Atmos. Oceanic Technol., 19, 183-204.
12. Egbert, G., A. Bennett, and M. Foreman (1994), TOPEX/Poseidon tides estimated using a global inverse model, J. Geophys. Res., 99, 24, 821-24, 852.
13. Eriksen, C. C. (1982), Observations of internal wave reflection off sloping bottoms, J. Geophys. Res., 87, 525-538.
14. Feng, M., and S. Wijffels (2002), Intraseasonal variability in the South Equatorial Current of the east Indian Ocean, J. Phys. Oceanogr., 32, 265-277.
15. Gerkema, T. (2002), Application of an internal tide generation model to baroclinic spring-neap cycles, J. Geophys. Res., 107(C9), 3124, doi:10.1029/2001JC001177.
16. Gill, A. E. (1982), Atmosphere-Ocean Dynamics, Academic, New York.
17. Godfrey, J. S., and J. Mansbridge (2000), Ekman transports, tidal mixing, and the control of temperature structure in Australia's northwest waters, J. Geophys. Res., 105, 24, 021-24, 044.
18. Hayes, S. P., and D. Halpern (1976), Variability of the semidiurnal internal tide during coastal upwelling, Mem. Soc. R. Sci. Liege, 6, 175-186.
19. Hibiya, T. (1986), Generation mechanism of internal waves by tidal flow over a sill, J. Geophys. Res., 91, 7697-7708.
20. Holloway, P. E. (1983), Internal tides on the Australian North-West Shelf: A preliminary investigation, J. Phys. Oceanogr., 13, 1357-1370.
21. Holloway, P. E. (1984), On the semidiurnal internal tide at a shelf-break region on the Australian North West Shelf, J. Phys. Oceanogr., 14, 1787-1799.
22. Holloway, P. E. (1988a), Physical oceanography of the Exmouth Plateau region, north-western Australia, Aust. J. Mar. Freshwater Res., 39, 589-606.
23. Holloway, P. E. (1988b), Climatology of internal tides at a shelf-break location on the Australian North West Shelf, Aust. J. Mar. Freshwater Res., 39, 1-18.
24. Holloway, P. E. (2001), A regional model of the semidiurnal internal tide at a shelf-break region on the Australian North West Shelf, J. Geophys. Res., 34, 19, 625-19, 638.
25. Hosegood, P., and H. van Haren (2006), Sub-inertial modulation of semidiurnal currents over the continental slope in the Faeroe-Shetland Channel, Deep Sea Res. Part I, 53, 627-655.
26. Johnston, T. M. S., M. Merrifield, and P. Holloway (2003), Internal tide scattering at the line islands ridge, J. Geophys. Res., 108(C11), 3365, doi:10.1029/2003JC001844.
27. Kronborg, M. B. (2004), Ocean circulation over the North West Shelf of Australia-Does it impact on the Leeuwin current?, Ph. D. thesis, Dan. Cent. for Earth Syst. Sci., Niels Bohr Inst. for Astron., Phys. and Geophys., Univ. of Copenhagen, Copenhagen.
28. Llewellyn Smith, S. G., and W. R. Young (2002), Conversion of the barotropic tide, J. Phys. Oceanogr., 32, 1554-1566.
29. Llewellyn Smith, S. G., and W. R. Young (2003), Tidal conversion at a very steep ridge, J. Fluid Mech., 495, 175-191.
30. Mitchum, G. T., and S. M. Chiswell (2000), Coherence of internal tide modulations along the Hawaiian Ridge, J. Geophys. Res., 105, 28, 653-28, 661.
31. Nakamura, H. and T. Awaji (2004), Tidally induced diapycnal mixing in the Kuril Straits and its role in water transformation and transport: A three-dimensional nonhydrostatic model experiment, J. Geophys. Res., 109, C09S07, doi:10.1029/2003JC001850. (Pubitemid 41051108)
32. 2 internal tides in the East China Sea, J. Geophys. Res., 109, C04027, doi:10.1029/2003JC001923. (Pubitemid 38892992)
33. Perkins, H. T., J. Sherwin, and T. S. Hopkins (1994), Amplification of tidal currents by overflow on the Iceland-Faeroe Ridge, J. Phys. Oceanogr., 24, 721-735.
34. Petkovic, P. and C. Buchanan (2002), Australian Bathymetry and Topography Grid, http://www.ga.gov. au/meta/ANZCW0703013116.html, Geosci. Aust., Canberra, A. C. T.
35. Phillips, O. M. (1977), The Dynamics of the Upper Ocean, 2nd ed., Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge, U. K.
36. Ridgway, K. R., J. R. Dunn, and J. L. Wilkin (2002), Ocean interpolation by four-dimensional weighted least squares-Application to the waters around Australia, J. Atmos. Oceanic Technol., 19, 1357-1375.
37. Robertson, R. and A. Ffield (2008), Baroclinic tides in the Indonesian seas: Tidal fields and comparisons to observations, J. Geophys. Res., 113, C07031, doi:10.1029/2007JC004677.
38. Sandstrom, H. (1976), On topographic generation and coupling of internal waves, Geophys. Fluid Dyn., 7, 231-270.
39. Shaw, P. T., D. S. Ko, and S.-Y. Chao (2009), Internal solitary waves induced by flow over a ridge: With applications to the northern South China Sea, J. Geophys. Res., 114, C02019, doi:10.1029/2008JC005007.
40. Smith, K. B., M. G. Brown, and F. D. Tappert (1992a), Ray chaos in underwater acoustics, J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 91, 1939-1949.
41. Smith, K. B., M. G. Brown, and F. D. Tappert (1992b), Acoustic rays chaos induced by mesoscale ocean structure, J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 91, 1950-1959.
42. Sprintall, J. S., S. E. Wijffels, R. Molcard, and I. Jaya (2009), Direct estimates of the Indonesian Throughflow entering the Indian Ocean: 2004-2006, J. Geophys. Res., 114, C07001, doi:10.1029/2008JC005257.
43. Steinberg, C. R., and D. M. Burrage (1999), Aims data report: NOWSOC currents 1993-1999, technical report, Aust. Inst. of Mar. Sci., Townsville, Queensl., Australia.
44. St. Laurent, L. S. Stringer, C. Garrett, and D. Perrault-Joncas (2003), The generation of internal tides at abrupt topography, Deep Sea Res. Part I, 50, 987-1003.
45. Weatherly, G. L., and P. L. Martin (1978), On the structure and dynamics of the oceanic bottom boundary layer, J. Phys. Oceanogr., 8, 557-570.
46. Wijffels, S. and G. Meyers (2004), An intersection of oceanic waveguides: Variability in the Indonesian throughflow region, J. Phys. Oceanogr., 34, 1232-1253.
47. Wolanski, E. and E. Deleersnijder (1998), Island-generated internal waves at Scott Reef, Western Australia, Cont. Shelf Res., 18, 1649-1666.
48. Wolanski, E. P. Colin, J. Naithani, E. Deleersnijder, and Y. Golbuu (2004), Large amplitude, leaky, island-generated, internal waves around Palau, Micronesia, Estuarine Coastal Shelf Sci., 60, 705-716.
49. Wunsch, C. (1975), Internal tides in the ocean, Rev. Geophys., 13, 167-182.
50. Wunsch, C. (1997), The vertical partition of oceanic horizontal kinetic energy, J. Phys. Oceanogr., 27, 1770-1794.
51. Wunsch, C. (2006), Discrete Inverse and State Estimation Problems: With Geophysical Fluid Applications, 371 pp., Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge, U. K.