Showing papers in "Continental Shelf Research in 1995"

TL;DR: In this paper, a scaling analysis of the continuity and momentum equations of buoyant discharge is presented, and the primary parameter that emerges is the Kelvin number K, the ratio of the buoyant structure width to the baroclinic Rossby radius.

TL;DR: In this paper, gas seeps were located by echo sounding, SCUBA divers and ROV observations at hydrothermal sites around the island of Milos, in the Hellenic Volcanic Arc.

TL;DR: The distribution of clay minerals from 156 surficial sediments of the western continental margin of India, ranging from 17 to 2000 m water depth, indicate that there are three principal sources of sediments as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: In this paper, a 9-month time series of satellite infrared imagery was used to examine the sea surface temperature (SST) variability in the northern and central Baltic Sea, and objective multi-level edge detection techniques were applied to find sharp SST gradient areas known as fronts.

TL;DR: In this paper, an interstitial water circulation, generated by gas flow through a permeable sediment, was observed at an intertidal site on the Kattegat coast of Denmark.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explored the hydrographic variability of the Delaware Estuary and the adjacent inner shelf with shipboard instruments and found significant three-dimensional density variability both within the estuary and on the shelf.

TL;DR: Pineda et al. as discussed by the authors found that negative surface water temperature anomalies (anomaly = daily datum minus day-of-the-year average) often reflect large internal tidal bores.

TL;DR: In this article, a three-dimensional model study of the tidally-averaged salinity field in the Rhine-Meuse plume is presented, where models ranging from constant diffusion coefficients through simple algebraic Richardson number dependent formulations to turbulence closure with evolution equations for turbulent kinetic energy and length scale were tested.

TL;DR: The authors of as mentioned in this paper showed that right whale dive patterns in the Great South Channel are closely correlated with the horizontal and vertical distributions and movements of dense patches of their zooplankton prey.

TL;DR: In this article, seasonal variability of the M 2 tidal harmonic constants is revealed through analyses of monthly tidal data at 12 representative tidal stations in the seas adjacent to the Korean peninsula, and the largest seasonal variability in M 2 appears in the stations located along the Korea Strait.

TL;DR: The behavior of whales, in particular the right whale, can be shown to be related to the spatial scales and abundance of their prey by the use of hydroacoustic estimates of target distribution and abundance.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the Arab Gulf monthly mean sea level variations over a period of 11 years (1980-1990) by spectral and regression analyses and found that about 80% of the variance can be related to seasonal changes.

TL;DR: In this article, areas of submarine gas and water venting around the island of Milos, in the Hellenic volcanic island arc, were mapped and water samples were collected from five stations in the geothermally active Paleohori Bay on 15 March 1992.

TL;DR: Most of the parameters were strongly influenced by the climatic events that occurred prior to sampling, and most of the correlations were largely explained by the concomittant influence of these events on the corresponding variables.

TL;DR: The residual flows computed from detided shipboard ADCP data collected in late spring 1988 and 1989 clearly show different circulation patterns in the near-surface and deeper regions in the Great South Channel (GSC).

TL;DR: The distribution of Maine Intermediate Water (MIW) also significantly differed between April 1988 and June 1989 in the northern Great South Channel (GSC) as discussed by the authors, due to the 6-week difference in the seasonal cycle and increased river discharge in 1989.

TL;DR: The results confirmed the cooccurrence of right whales with high density Calanus patches, and also demonstrated that right whales fed on patches with higher proportions of larger lifestages, but there was little evidence to support the productivity hypothesis.

TL;DR: In this article, a generalized theory is developed to describe the annual temperature cycle in shelf seas, where a sinusoidal approximation to the annual solar heating component, S, is assumed and the surface loss term is expressed as a constant k times the air-sea temperature difference (T a − T s ).

TL;DR: In this article, a system has been developed which provides up-to-the-hour hindcasts and short term forecasts for the flow within the domain of a regional hydrodynamic model.

TL;DR: In this paper, a comparative study of currents and hydrography during the monsoon and non-monsoon periods of 1984, 1985 and 1987 was carried out using data collected on five cruises covering the waters of the west coast of India from 8°N to 15°N and the inferences on upwelling and associated features are discussed.

TL;DR: Pelagic microbial community respiratory rates on the southeastern continental shelf show strong seasonal changes, with summer maxima and winter minima as mentioned in this paper, with little excess organic production remaining for export to the ocean's interior.

TL;DR: In this paper, a field experiment was conducted in which small impellor current meters were paired with OBS sensors at common elevations of 4, 9 and 19 cm from the bed and across the inner surf zone to obtain concurrent velocity and concentration profiles.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors report nutrient and phytoplankton pigment concentrations during three hydrographic surveys in the southwestern Gulf of Maine (GOM) during the South Channel Ocean Productivity Experiment (SCOPEX).

TL;DR: In this paper, the influence of bottom topography, internal friction, and bottom friction on the position of M2 tidal amphidromes and the distribution of the S2 tide over the North Sea is examined.

TL;DR: In this paper, field measurements of near-bed current velocities and sediment concentrations within a barred nearshore environment revealed a large flux coupling at far infragravity frequencies (<0.005 Hz).

TL;DR: For example, in this paper, a systematic increase in 228Ra/226Ra with salinity, coupled with a general increase in 226Ra above that predicted from evaporation of open ocean sea water, demonstrate that both radium isotopes enter the gulf.

TL;DR: In this article, the effect of wave size in relation to the current is investigated, and estimates of the net flux for differing reference concentration phase lags are discussed, showing that the wave-related contribution may dominate the net sediment flux for grains confined to the oscillatory boundary layer.

TL;DR: The data base for the tidal records at Saint John, New Brunswick, was broadened by digitizing the water levels available over the span 1932-1946 as discussed by the authors, and the major components of its tide now cover the interval 1932-1980; samples for 1894-1917 could also be derived indirectly.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors measured hourly surface currents in the vicinity of Granite Canyon, California (36°259′N, 121°550′W) using HF-radar in 1990-1992 and found that the M 2 and S 2 semi-diurnal tidal constituents were removed from 6-month records taken during part of the upwelling season of 1991 and 1992.

TL;DR: In this paper, an instrumented platform (TOSCA) is described for monitoring coarse-grained sediment transport in high (wave and tidal) energy environments, which consists of a number of sensors which measure: instantaneous current velocities at three levels; sea surface elevation; and self-generated noise (SGN) caused by intercollision of particles in transit.