| Abstract: | To study the propagation and transformation of riverine waters in the framework of a multilayer model based on primitive equations,
the method of through counting is suggested, involving two types of grids, namely, a fine grid in the north-western shelf
area and a large-sized grid in the deep sea. It has been shown that, in the absence of wind, riverine waters propagate over
the shelf and along the western coast of the sea. North-easterly wind presses this flow against the shore, thus intensifying
it; as a result of this, brackish waters turn out to be nearly entirely driven from the north-western shelf area and concentrate
in the western section of the open sea where they form a layer that is quasi-homogeneous, in terms of salinity. Due to the
forcing of the north-westerly wind, riverine waters penetrate into the interior of the shelf area and then move southward
toward the open sea, mixing up with the upwelling abyssal saltier waters and forming a tongue of relatively brackish waters
in the central part of the western half-basin.
Translated by Vladimir A. Puchkin. |
