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Filtering by: Funding statement E. D. Palma acknowledges the financial support from CONICET (PIP09-112-200801), Agencia Nacional de Promoción Científica y Tecnológica (PICT08–1874), Universidad Nacional del Sur (24F044), MINCyT/CONAE (001) and additional support from the Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research (IAI) CRN 2076 which is supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation (GEO-0452325). R. P. Matano acknowledges the financial support of the National Science Foundation through grant OCE-0928348, and NASA through grants NNX12AF67G and NNX08AR40G. Remove constraint Funding statement: E. D. Palma acknowledges the financial support from CONICET (PIP09-112-200801), Agencia Nacional de Promoción Científica y Tecnológica (PICT08–1874), Universidad Nacional del Sur (24F044), MINCyT/CONAE (001) and additional support from the Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research (IAI) CRN 2076 which is supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation (GEO-0452325). R. P. Matano acknowledges the financial support of the National Science Foundation through grant OCE-0928348, and NASA through grants NNX12AF67G and NNX08AR40G.

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  • A numerical study of the Magellan Plume

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    Palma, Elbio D. and Matano, Ricardo P.
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    In this modeling study we investigate the dynamical mechanisms controlling the spreading of the Magellan Plume, which is a low-salinity tongue that extends along the Patagonian Shelf. Our results indicate that the overall characteristics of the plume (width, depth, spreading rate, etc.) are primarily influenced by tidal forcing, which manifests...
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    Institute for Global Change Research (IAI) CRN 2076 which is supported by the U.S. National Science

  • The Spindown of Bottom-Trapped Plumes

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    Matano, Ricardo P. and Palma, Elbio D.
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    This note considers the decay of a bottom-trapped freshwater plume after the causative freshwater inflow has ceased. It is shown that shortly after the low-density inflow stops, the barotropic pressure field that it created radiates away and the ocean circulation becomes controlled by baroclinic pressure gradients generated by the remnants...
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    Grants OCE-0726994 and OCE- 0928348 and of NASA through Grant NNX08AR40G. E. D. Palma acknowledges the

  • The Upstream Spreading of Bottom-Trapped Plumes

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    Matano, Ricardo P. and Palma, Elbio D.
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    It is well known that numerical simulations of freshwater discharges produce plumes that spread in the direction opposite to that of the propagation of coastally trapped waves (the upstream direction). The lack of a theory explaining these motions in unforced environments deemed the numerical results suspect. Thus, it became a...
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    -0928348 and of NASA through Grant NNX08AR40G. E. D. Palma acknowledges the financial support from