Deep‐sea currents off northern California
作者:
Phyllis J. Stabeno,
Robert L. Smith,
期刊:
Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans
(WILEY Available online 1987)
卷期:
Volume 92,
issue C1
页码: 755-771
ISSN:0148-0227
年代: 1987
DOI:10.1029/JC092iC01p00755
数据来源: WILEY
摘要:
Current meter records from 14 moorings in the deep‐sea basin (3000–4500 m deep) south of the Mendocino Fracture Zone are analyzed. All moorings had current meters between 200 m and 500 m above the bottom, and some extended to within 150 m of the surface. There were high vertical correlations between measurements on the same mooring within 1500 m of the bottom and within 800 m of the surface but almost no significant correlation in the horizontal. In the basin the presence of eddies appears strongest at depths below 1200 m. Several of the records exceed 3 years in length, and one extended for 5 years. Spectral analysis of these shows that most of the kinetic energy below 3000 m is in the temporal mesoscale (periods of 31 to 120 days), while the spectral estimates in the upper 1000 m are dominated by longer time scales. Only in the deep records is there a significant southward mean flow. Neither a mean California Current nor a poleward undercurrent is apparent in the shallower data (above 1250 m). The currents in the upper 500 m nearest the continental margin are influenced by the presence of cold filaments originating near Point Ar
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