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ЖУРНАЛЫ // Regular and Chaotic Dynamics // Архив

Regul. Chaotic Dyn., 2021, том 26, выпуск 5, страницы 543–561 (Mi rcd1131)

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Special Issue: 200th birthday of Hermann von Helmholtz

Interaction of an Upwelling Front with External Vortices: Impact on Cross-shore Particle Exchange

Charly de Marez, Xavier Carton

Univ. Brest, Laboratoire d’Océanographie Physique et Spatiale (LOPS), IUEM, Rue Dumont D’urville, 29280 Plouzané, France

Аннотация: Coastal upwellings, due to offshore Ekman transport, are more energetic at the western boundaries of the oceans, where they are intensified by incoming Rossby waves, than at the eastern boundaries. Western boundary upwellings are often accompanied by a local vortex field. The instability of a developed upwelling front and its interaction with an external vortex field is studied here with a three-dimensional numerical model of the hydrostatic rotating Navier-Stokes equations (the primitive equations). The baroclinic instability of the front leads to the growth of meanders with $100$$200$ km wavelength, in the absence of external vortex. On the $f$-plane, these waves can break into a row of vortices when the instability is intense. The $\beta$-effect is stabilizing and strongly decreases the amplitude of meanders. Simulations are then performed with a front initially accompanied by one or several external vortices. The evolutions in this case are compared with those of the unstable jet alone. On the $f$-plane, when an external vortex is close to the front, this latter sheds a long filament which wraps up around the vortex. This occurs over a period similar to that of the instability of the isolated front. Cyclones are more efficient in tearing such filaments offshore than anticyclones. On the $\beta$-plane, the filaments are short and turbulence is confined to the vicinity of the front. At long times, waves propagate along the front, thus extending turbulence alongshore. The initial presence of a vortex alley leads to a stronger destabilization of the front and to a larger cross-shore flux than for a single vortex, with many filaments and small vortices pushed far offshore. In the ocean, this cross-shore exchange has important consequences on the local biological activity.

Ключевые слова: coastal upwelling front, vortices, filaments, baroclinic instability, frontal waves, particle motion and tracking.

MSC: 8096

Поступила в редакцию: 14.07.2021
Принята в печать: 30.08.2021

Язык публикации: английский

DOI: 10.1134/S1560354721050063



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