Spatial Distribution of Energy of Subinertial Baroclinic Motions in the Baltic Sea
| Autor: | Ekaterina Rouvinskaya, Andrey Kurkin, Artem Rybin, Tarmo Soomere, Oxana Kurkina |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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near-bed velocity
Pycnocline Baltic Sea 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences Baroclinity internal seiches Storm 010502 geochemistry & geophysics Spatial distribution Atmospheric sciences Kinetic energy 01 natural sciences Potential energy pycnocline variations Amplitude baroclinic waves General Earth and Planetary Sciences lcsh:Q lcsh:Science Geology Seabed 0105 earth and related environmental sciences |
| Zdroj: | Frontiers in Earth Science, Vol 8 (2020) |
| ISSN: | 2296-6463 |
| DOI: | 10.3389/feart.2020.00184 |
| Popis: | We explore the basic properties of the “climate” of the field of subinertial motions with periods of 2–12 days in the Baltic Sea. The calculations are performed using the output of the Rossby Center Ocean Model RCO with a spatial resolution of 2 nautical miles for 1961–2005. The field of such motions in the Baltic Sea is strongly asymmetric, with much more energy present in the eastern regions of the sea. Spatial distributions of 5-yr average amplitudes of fluctuations of the main and seasonal pycnocline, near-bottom velocity and kinetic and potential energy reflect this asymmetry and also exhibit extensive variability on scales of a few tens of kilometers. The majority of potential energy of such motions is concentrated in a narrow nearshore strip of the sea with a typical width of |
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