Bottom boundary layer flow and salt injection from the continental shelf to slope

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Creator	Brink, K. H. Shearman, R. Kipp
Abstract	Austral winter oceanographic measurements from the northwest Australian continental shelf reveal salty water forming evaporatively inshore, moving across the wide shelf near the bottom and into the adjacent open ocean when the shelf edge alongshore flow is equatorward. The salt tongue is absent during more normal conditions, when the poleward Leeuwin Current is present. We hypothesize that the flow reversal enables shelf-wide bottom boundary layer (Ekman) transport and thus creates the shelf-edge convergence that accounts for the observed salt tongue. This flow is absent under sustained normal conditions because of buoyancy arrest in the bottom boundary layer.
Resource Type	Article
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1029/2006GL026311
Date Available	2010-07-28T23:27:09+00:00
Date Issued	2006-01-14
Citation	Brink, K. H., and R. K. Shearman (2006), Bottom boundary layer flow and salt injection from the continental shelf to slope, Geophys. Res. Lett., 33, L13608.
Journal Title	Geophysical Research Letters
Journal Volume	33
Rights Statement	Copyright Not Evaluated
Publisher	American Geophysical Union
Language	English [eng]
Replaces	http://hdl.handle.net/1957/17170