observations of the internal tide in monterey canyon abstract data from two shipboard experiments in 1994 designed to observe the semidiurnal internal tide in monterey canyon reveal semidiurnal currents of about 20 cm s 1 which is an order of magnitude larger than the estimated barotropic tidal currents the kinetic and potential energy evidenced by isopycnal displacements of about 50 m was greatest along paths following the characteristics calculated from linear theory these energy ray paths are oriented nearly parallel to the canyon floor and may originate from large bathymetric features beyond the mouth of monterey bay energy propagated shoreward during the april experiment itex1 whereas a standing wave that is an internal seiche was observed in october itex2 the difference is attributed to changes in stratification between the two experiments higher energy levels were present during itex1 which took place near the spring phase of the fortnightly 14 8 days cycle in sea level while itex2 occurred close to the neap phase further evide

observations of overturning in the thermocline the context of ocean mixing abstract the time sequence of events that lead to internal wave breaking and ocean turbulence is investigated data are obtained from depths 100 400 m with a repeat profiling ctd and a coded pulse doppler sonar the instruments were deployed from r p flip during february march 1995 while stationed 30 km west of point arguello california as an aspect of the marine boundary layer experiment although the water depth at the site is 1500 m both rms shear and diapycnal diffusivity as inferred from the average rate and size of overturning events increase with depth below 250 m a deep source of wave energy is implied depth time series of 6 4 m shear s 2 m strain n2 n2 where n is the buoyancy frequency 6 4 m gradient richardson number ri n2 s2 and 2 m effective strain rate the depth derivative of ctd inferred vertical velocity are obtained at 4 minute intervals over a 9 day 100 400 m domain the occurrence of overturns static instabilities of vertical scale 2 m in the observed density

dynamics of advection driven upwelling over a shelf break submarine canyon 1 the response over a submarine canyon to a several day upwelling event can be separated into three phases an initial transient response a later much longer steady advection driven response and a final relaxation phase for the advection driven phase over realistically steep deep and narrow canyons with near uniform flow and stratification at rim depth we have derived scale estimates for four key quantities observations from 5 real world canyon studies and 3 laboratory studies are used to validate the scaling and estimate the scalar constant for each scale based on 4 geometric parameters of the canyon the background stratification the coriolis parameter and the incoming current we can estimate 1 the depth of upwelling in the canyon to within 15 m 2 the deep vorticity to within 15 and 3 the presence absence of a rim depth eddy can be determined based on laboratory data 4 the total upwelling flux can also be estimated the scaling analysis shows the importance of a rossby number based on the radius of curvature of isobaths at the upstream mouth of the canyon this rossby number determines the ability of the flow to cross the canyon isobaths and generate the pressure gradient that drives upwelling in the canyon other important scales are a rossby number based on the length of the canyon which measures the ability of the flow to lift isopycnals and a burger number based on the width of the canyon that determines the likelihood of an eddy at rim depth generally long canyons with sharply turning upstream isobaths strong incoming flow small coriolis parameter and weak stratification have the strongest upwelling response

tidally forced internal waves and overturns observed on a slope results from home abstract tidal mixing over a slope was explored using moored time series observations on kaena ridge extending northwest from oahu hawaii during the survey component of the hawaii ocean mixing experiment home a mooring was instrumented to sample the velocity and density field of the lower 500 m of the water column to look for indirect evidence of tidally induced mixing and was deployed on a slope in 1453 m water depth for 2 months beginning in november 2000 the semidiurnal barotropic tidal currents at this site have a significant cross ridge component favorable for exciting an internal tidal response a large amplitude response is expected given that the slope of the topography 4 5 is nearly the same as the slope of the internal wave group velocity at semidiurnal frequency density overturns were inferred from temperature profiles measured every 2 min the number and strength of the overturns are greater in the 200 m nearest the bottom with overturns exceeding 24 m present at any depth nearly

intense variable mixing near the head of monterey submarine canyon abstract a microstructure survey near the head of monterey submarine canyon the first in a canyon confirmed earlier inferences that coastal submarine canyons are sites of intense mixing the data collected during two weeks in august 1997 showed turbulent kinetic energy dissipation and diapycnal diffusivity up to 103 times higher than in the open ocean dissipation and diapycnal diffusivity within 10 km of the canyon head were among the highest observed anywhere e 1 1 10 6 w kg 1 k 1 0 10 2 m2 s 1 mixing occurred mainly in an on axis stratified turbulent layer with thickness and intensity increasing from neap to spring tide strain spectra showed a gentler than k 1z rolloff suggesting that critical reflection and scattering may push energy into high wavenumbers dissipation dependence on shear appears to be much weaker in the canyon than in the open ocean with indications that the dependence maybe as low as e s coastal canyons may account for a small but significant fraction of the int

structure of the baroclinic tide generated at kaena ridge hawaii repeat transects of full depth density and velocity are used to quantify generation and radiation of the semidiurnal internal tide from kaena ridge hawaii a 20 km long transect was sampled every 3 h using expendable current profilers and the absolute velocity profiler phase and amplitude of the baroclinic velocity pressure and vertical displacement were computed as was the energy flux large barotropically induced isopycnal heaving and strong baroclinic energy flux divergence are observed on the steep flanks of the ridge where upward and downward beams radiate off ridge directly above kaena ridge strong kinetic energy density and weak net energy flux are argued to be a horizontally standing wave the phasing of velocity and vertical displacements is consistent with this interpretation results compare favorably with the merrifield and holloway model

time average and time dependent parts of core flow abstract we infer fluid motions below the core mantle boundary by inverting geomagnetic secular variation data over a 150 years assuming helical geostrophic flow we obtain snapshot images of core flow at 5 year intervals which we combine to give time average and time dependent parts of the motion over this time interval the most prominent time average flow structure is a large anti cyclonic vortex in the southern hemisphere beneath the atlantic and indian oceans the time average zonal core flow outside the inner core tangent cylinder is significantly westward in the southern hemisphere but nearly zero in the northern hemisphere westward polar vortices occur inside the tangent cylinder in both hemispheres particularly in the north in terms of mantle versus core origins mantle driving appears to be responsible for the mid latitude asymmetry in the zonal core flow whereas core driving appears to be responsible for the flow at high latitudes we also compare changes in the core s angular momentum calculated from our time dependent core flow with changes in the mantle s angular momentum derived from decade scale length of day variations and find adequate agreement a fit of our time dependent core flow to a torsional oscillations model yields dominant periods of 110 and 53 years

evaluation of the viscous behaviour of clay using generalised overstress viscoplastic theory in this paper generalised elastic viscoplastic evp theory combined with a power law is used to derive simplified equations relating undrained shear strength and preconsolidation pressure to strain rate an additional equation is derived relating the strain rate parameter in evp theory to the secondary compression index the derived equations are used to evaluate the rate sensitive and drained creep response of 20 clays reported in the literature the evaluation shows strong evidence that the rate sensitivity and time dependency of clay in compression can be described simultaneously using the generalised evp theory and power law in addition the constitutive parameter governing rate sensitivity in evp theory appears to be unique for constant rate of strain tests such as undrained triaxial compression and drained oedometer compression as well as stress controlled tests such as drained oedometer creep to conclude an approach to select the viscous parameters for clay is provided

internal tides and mixing in a submarine canyon with time varying stratification abstractthe time variability of the energetics and turbulent dissipation of internal tides in the upper monterey submarine canyon msc is examined with three moored profilers and five adcp moorings spanning february april 2009 highly resolved time series of velocity energy and energy flux are all dominated by the semidiurnal internal tide and show pronounced spring neap cycles however the onset of springtime upwelling winds significantly alters the stratification during the record causing the thermocline depth to shoal from about 100 to 40 m the time variable stratification must be accounted for because it significantly affects the energy energy flux the vertical modal structures and the energy distribution among the modes the internal tide changes from a partly horizontally standing wave to a more freely propagating wave when the thermocline shoals suggesting more reflection from up canyon early in the observational record turbulence computed from thorpe scales is greatest in the bottom 5

flow and mixing in ascension a steep narrow canyon 1 a thin gash in the continental slope northwest of monterey bay ascension canyon is steep with sides and axis both strongly supercritical to m2 internal tides a hydrostatic model forced with eight tidal constituents shows no major sources feeding energy into the canyon but significant energy is exchanged between barotropic and baroclinic flows along the tops of the sides where slopes are critical average turbulent dissipation rates observed near spring tide during april are half as large as a two week average measured during august in monterey canyon owing to ascension s weaker stratification however its average diapycnal diffusivity 3 9 10 3 m2 s 1 exceeded the 2 5 10 3 m2 s 1 found in monterey most of the dissipation occurred near the bottom apparently associated with an internal bore and just below the rim where sustained cross canyon flow may have been generating lee waves or rotors the near bottom mixing decreased sharply around ascension s one bend as did vertically integrated baroclinic energy fluxes dissipation had a minor effect on energetics which were controlled by flux divergences and convergences and temporal changes in energy density in ascension the observed dissipation rate near spring tide was 2 1 times that predicted from a simulation using eight tidal constituents averaged over a fortnightly period the same observation was 1 5 times the average of an m2 only prediction in monterey the previous observed average was 4 9 times the average of an m2 only prediction

diagnosing a partly standing internal wave in mamala bay oahu 1 an internal partly standing wave in mamala bay hawaii is studied using new observations and the princeton ocean model pom previous work suggested a convergence in the bay of east and westbound waves emanating from kaena ridge and makapuu point respectively new energy flux measurements with shipboard adcp ctd confirm that makapuu point is the eastern source after validating the pom results against observations the model output is modally decomposed and compared with the expected theoretical patterns of kinetic and available potential energy energy flux and group velocity for a partly standing wave agreement is seen for the first baroclinic mode which also contains most of the energy the results confirm previous suggestions of standing wave dynamics in mamala bay

mixing in the romanche fracture zone the romanche fracture zone is a major gap in the mid atlantic ridge at the equator which is deep enough to allow significant eastward flows of antarctic bottom water from the brazil basin to the sierra leone and guinea abyssal plains while flowing through the romanche fracture zone bottom water properties are strongly modified due to intense vertical mixing the diapycnal mixing coefficient in the bottom water of the romanche fracture zone is estimated by using the finestructure of ctd profiles the microstructure of high resolution profiler data and by constructing a heat budget from current meter data the finestructure of density profiles is described using the thorpe scaleslt it is shown from microstructure data taken in the bottom water that the ozmidov scale lo is related to lt by the linear relationship lo 5 0 95lt similar to other studies which allows an estimate of the diapycnal mixing coefficient using the osborn relation the thorpe scale and the diapycnal mixing coefficient estimates show enhanced mixing downstream eastward of the main sill of the romanche fracture zone in this region a mean diapycnal mixing coefficient of about 1000 3 1024 m2 s21 is found for the bottom water estimates of cross isothermal mixing coefficient derived from the heat budgets constructed downstream of the current meter arrays deployed in the romanche fracture zone and the nearby chain fracture zone are in agreement with the finestructure estimates of the diapycnal mixing coefficient within the romanche fracture zone although the two fracture zones occupy only 0 4 of the area covered by the sierra leone and guinea abyssal plains the diffusive heat fluxes across the 1 4 8c isotherm in the romanche and chain fracture zones are half that found over the abyssal plains across the 1 88c isotherm emphasizing the role of these passages for bottom water property modifications

transition from partly standing to progressive internal tides in monterey submarine canyon monterey submarine canyon is a large sinuous canyon off the coast of california the upper reaches of which were the subject of an internal tide observational program using moored profilers and upward looking moored adcps the mooring observations measured a near surface stratification change in the upper canyon likely caused by a seasonal shift in the prevailing wind that favoured coastal upwelling this change in near surface stratification caused a transition in the behaviour of the internal tide in the upper canyon from a partly standing wave during pre upwelling conditions to a progressive wave during upwelling conditions using a numerical model we present evidence that either a partly standing or a progressive internal tide can be simulated in the canyon simply by changing the initial stratification conditions in accordance with the observations the mechanism driving the transition is a dependence of down canyon supercritical internal tide reflection from the canyon floor and walls on the depth of maximum stratification during pre upwelling conditions the main pycnocline extends down to 200 m below the canyon rim resulting in increased supercritical reflection of the up canyon propagating internal tide back down the canyon the large up canyon and smaller down canyon progressive waves are the two components of the partly standing wave during upwelling conditions the pycnocline shallows to the upper 50 m of the watercolumn above the canyon rim resulting in decreased supercritical reflection and allowing the up canyon progressive wave to dominate

structure propagation and mixing of energetic baroclinic tides in mamala bay oahu hawaii abstract large semidiurnal vertical displacements 100 m and strong baroclinic currents 0 5 m s 1 several times as large as barotropic currents dominate motions in mamala bay outside the mouth of pearl harbor hawaii during september 2002 the authors sought to characterize them with a 2 month mclane moored profiler deployment and a 4 day intensive survey with a towed ctd adcp and the research vessel r v revelle hydrographic sonar spatial maps and time series of turbulent dissipation rate diapycnal diffusivity k isopycnal displacement velocity u energy e and energy flux f are presented dissipation rate peaks in the lower 150 m during rising isopycnals and high strain and shows a factor of 50 spring neap modulation the largest k values in the western bay near a submarine ridge exceed 10 3 m2 s 1 the m2 phases of and u increase toward the west implying a westward phase velocity cp 1 m s 1 and horizontal wavelength 60 km consistent with theoretical mode 1 values these phase

propagation and dissipation of the internal tide in upper monterey canyon 1 submarine canyons are sites of intense turbulence and mixing monterey canyon cuts into the continental shelf off california and is defined by its sinuous nature temperature salinity and current velocity measurements were made over 21 days in april 2009 with a depth cycling towed body to understand internal tide propagation and dissipation through the canyon bends cross canyon transects reveal complex flow patterns that follow large scale bathymetry on scales greater than 5 km changes in thalweg direction deflect baroclinic energy flux but the bends in the measurement region are too sharp for the flux to follow the thalweg ridges that form the bends in the canyon act as obstacles to the flow and turbulent dissipation rates greater than 1 10 5 m2 s 3 were observed on their flanks especially at the largest meander the gooseneck the canyon integrated baroclinic energy flux increased from 2 7 mw at the most western section to 3 7 mw at the gooseneck ridge which has a nearly critical bottom slope with respect to the semidiurnal baroclinic tide on the western side baroclinic energy flux was 50 less on the eastern side of the ridge while measured dissipation near the gooseneck meander was sufficient to explain the flux divergence turbulence near the gooseneck may have been undersampled between the gooseneck ridge and the most eastern cross canyon transect dissipation may account for the decrease in the energy flux though a local energy balance does not hold the energy budget is balanced over the larger scale of the measurement region east of the gooseneck ridge

internal wave reflection on shelf slopes with depth varying stratification abstractreflection of internal waves from sloping topography is simple to predict for uniform stratification and linear slope gradients however depth varying stratification presents the complication that regions of the slope may be subcritical and other regions supercritical here a numerical model is used to simulate a mode 1 m2 internal tide approaching a shelf slope with both uniform and depth varying stratifications the fractions of incident internal wave energy reflected back offshore and transmitted onto the shelf are diagnosed by calculating the energy flux at the base of slope with and without topography and at the shelf break for the stratifications topographies considered in this study the fraction of energy reflected for a given slope criticality is similar for both uniform and depth varying stratifications this suggests the fraction reflected is dependent only on maximum slope criticality and independent of the depth of the pycnocline the majority of the reflected energy flux is in

internal tides in monterey submarine canyon abstract the m2 internal tide in monterey submarine canyon is simulated using a modified version of the princeton ocean model most of the internal tide energy entering the canyon is generated to the south on sur slope and at the head of carmel canyon the internal tide is topographically steered around the large canyon meanders depth integrated baroclinic energy fluxes are up canyon and largest near the canyon axis up to 1 5 kw m 1 at the mouth of the upper canyon and increasing to over 4 kw m 1 around monterey and san gregorio meanders the up canyon energy flux is bottom intensified suggesting that topographic focusing occurs net along canyon energy flux decreases almost monotonically from 9 mw at the canyon mouth to 1 mw at gooseneck meander implying that high levels of internal tide dissipation occur the depth integrated energy flux across the 200 m isobath is order 10 w m 1 along the majority of the canyon rim but increases by over an order of magnitude near the canyon head where internal ti

flow and mixing in juan de fuca canyon washington we report breaking internal lee waves strong mixing and hydraulic control associated with wind driven up canyon flow in juan de fuca canyon washington unlike the flow above the canyon rim which shows a tidal modulation typical on continental shelves the flow within the canyon is persistently up canyon during our observations with isopycnals tilted consistent with a geostrophic cross canyon momentum balance as the flow encounters a sill near the canyon entrance at the shelf break it accelerates significantly and undergoes elevated mixing on the upstream and downstream sides of the sill on the downstream side a strong lee wave response is seen with displacements of o 100 m and overturns tens of meters high the resulting diffusivity is o 10 2 m2 s 1 sufficient to substantially modify coastal water masses as they transit the canyon and enter the salish sea estuarine system

turbulent mixing and exchange with interior waters on sloping boundaries abstractmicrostructure measurements along the axes of monterey and soquel submarine canyons reveal 200 300 m thick well stratified turbulent near bottom layers with average turbulent kinetic energy dissipation rates e 4 10 8 w kg 1 and eddy diffusivities k 16 10 4 m2 s 1 assuming mixing efficiency 0 2 to at least thalweg depths of 1200 m turbulent dissipation rates are an order of magnitude lower in overlying waters whereas buoyancy frequencies are only 25 higher well mixed bottom boundary layer thicknesses hn are an order of magnitude thinner than the stratified turbulent layer hn he because well stratified turbulent layers are commonly observed above slopes arguments that mixing efficiency should be reduced on sloping boundaries do not hold in cases of energetic internal wave generation or interaction with topography an advective diffusive balance is used to infer velocities and transports predicting horizontal upslope flows of 10 50 m day 1 extrapolating this estimate globa

internal tide reflection and turbulent mixing on the continental slope abstract observations of turbulence internal waves and subinertial flow were made over a steep corrugated continental slope off virginia during may june 1998 at semidiurnal frequencies a convergence of low mode onshore energy flux is approximately balanced by a divergence of high wavenumber offshore energy flux this conversion occurs in a region where the continental slope is nearly critical with respect to the semidiurnal tide it is suggested that elevated near bottom mixing k 10 3 m2 s 1 observed offshore of the supercritical continental slope arises from the reflection of a remotely generated low mode m2 internal tide based on the observed turbulent kinetic energy dissipation rate the high wavenumber internal tide decays on time scales o 1 day no evidence for internal lee wave generation by flow over the slope s corrugations or internal tide generation at the shelf break was found at this site

a reflecting steepening and breaking internal tide in a submarine canyon submarine canyons are common features of the coastal ocean although they are known to be hotspots of turbulence that enhance diapycnal transport in their stratified waters the dynamics of canyon mixing processes are poorly understood most studies of internal wave dynamics within canyons have focused on a handful of canyons with along axis slopes less steep than semidiurnal d2 internal wave characteristics subcritical here we present the first tidally resolving observations within a canyon with a steeply sloping axis supercritical a process study consisting of two 24 hour shipboard stations and a profiling mooring was conducted in the la jolla canyon off the coast of la jolla ca baroclinic energy flux is oriented up canyon and decreases from 182 18 w m 1 at the canyon mouth to 46 5 w m 1 near the head the ratio of horizontal kinetic energy to available potential energy and the observed group speed of each mode are lower than expected for freely propagating d2 internal waves at each station indicating partial reflection harmonic analysis reveals that variance is dominated by the d2 tide moving up canyon the relative importance of d2 decreases and its higher harmonics are needed to account for a majority of the observed variance indicating steepening steep internal tides cause large isopycnal displacements 50 m in 100m water depth and high strain events these events coincide with enhanced o 10 7 10 5 m2 s 3 dissipation of turbulent kinetic energy at mid depths

internal tide radiation from mendocino escarpment abstract strong semidiurnal internal tides are observed near mendocino escarpment in full depth profile time series of velocity temperature and salinity velocity and density profiles are combined to estimate the internal tide energy flux divergence of this flux demonstrates that its source is the barotropic tide interacting with the escarpment a baroclinic energy flux of 7 kw m 1 radiates from the escarpment corresponding to 3 of the 220 kw m 1 fluxing poleward in the surface tide energy and energy flux are concentrated in packets that emanate from the flanks of the ridge surmounting the escarpment and one site 90 km north of the escarpment coherent beamlike structure along semidiurnal ray paths remains identifiable until the first surface reflection beyond the first surface reflection north of the escarpment the energy flux drops by 2 kw m 1 and beams are no longer discernible turbulence as inferred from finescale parameterizations is elevated by over two orders of magnitude relative to th