Tides and mixing in the northwestern East China Sea Part I: Rotating and reversing tidal flows |
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| Authors: | Iossif Lozovatsky Zhiyu Liu Hao Wei HJS Fernando |
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| Institution: | 1. Physical Oceanography Laboratory, Ocean University of China, Qingdao 266100, PR China;2. Environmental Fluid Dynamics Program, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Arizona State University, AZ 85287-8909, USA;3. P.P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow 117997, Russia |
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| Abstract: | Bottom-mounted ADV and ADCP instruments in combination with CTD profiling measurements taken along the Chinese coast of the East China Sea were used to study the vertical structure of temperature, salinity, and velocity in reversing tidal currents on a shallow inner shelf and in rotating tidal flows over a deeper sloping bottom of the outer shelf. These two regimes of barotropic tide affect small-scale dynamics in the lower part of the water column differently. The reversing flow was superimposed by seiches of ∼2.3 h period generated in semienclosed Jiaozhou Bay located nearby. As the tidal vector rotates over the sloping bottom, the height of the near-bottom logarithmic layer is subjected to tidal-induced variations. A maximum of horizontal velocity Umax appears at the upper boundary of the log layer during the first half of the current vector rotation from the minor to the major axis of tidal ellipse. In rotating tidal flow, vertical shear generated at the seafloor, propagated slowly to the water interior up to the height of Umax, with a phase speed of ∼5 m/h. The time-shifted shear inside the water column, relative to the shear at the bottom, was associated with periodically changing increases and decreases of the tidal velocity above the log layer toward the sea surface. In reversing flows, the shear generated near the bottom and the shear at the upper levels were almost in phase. |
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| Keywords: | Tidal currents East China Sea Seiches Shear Convection Internal waves |
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