Energetic Baroclinic Super-Tidal Oscillations on the Southeast Florida shelf

Alexander Soloviev; Mark E. Luther; Robert H. Weisberg

doi:10.1029/2002gl016603

Energetic Baroclinic Super-Tidal Oscillations on the Southeast Florida shelf

Alexander Soloviev
, Mark E. Luther
, Robert H. Weisberg

Department of Marine and Environmental Sciences

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Abstract

Historical and recent data reveal a very energetic regime on the shelf off southeast Florida. In addition to spin off eddies, large-amplitude tidal velocity fluctuations with amplitudes exceeding 0.5 ms ⁻¹ are observed. Recent exploratory measurements conducted as a part of the South Florida Ocean Measurement Center (SFOMC) show that the time scale of these oscillations is about 10 hrs. This period does not coincide either with the inertial period (27 Hrs) or with the semidiurnal M ₂ (12.42 hrs) or S ₂ (12 hrs) tidal constituents. In addition, these internal oscillations appear to be modulated seasonally. A possible explanation is that these oscillations are near-resonant internal seiches generated by barotropic tidal wave in the channel between Florida and Bahamas.

Original language	American English
Journal	Geophysical Research Letters
Volume	30
Issue number	9
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1029/2002gl016603
State	Published - May 6 2003

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General Earth and Planetary Sciences

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Internal and inertial waves
Nearshore processes
Western boundary currents

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Oceanography and Atmospheric Sciences and Meteorology

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