A Model Study of the Seasonal Circulation in the Gulf of Maine

2000/05/01 by Huijie Xue, Fei Chai, Neal R. Pettigrew · 3 citations
Earth and Planetary Sciences · #Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes #Marine and coastal ecosystems #Ocean Waves and Remote Sensing

paper · pdf · doi:10.1175/1520-0485(2000)030<1111:amsots>2.0.co;2

Abstract

The Princeton Ocean Model is used to study the circulation in the Gulf of Maine and its seasonal transition in response to wind, surface heat flux, river discharge, and the M 2 tide. The model has an orthogonal-curvature linear grid in the horizontal with variable spacing from 3 km nearshore to 7 km offshore and 19 levels in the vertical. It is initialized and forced at the open boundary with model results from the East Coast Forecast System. The first experiment is forced by monthly climatological wind and heat flux from the Comprehensive Ocean Atmosphere Data Set; discharges from the Saint John, Penobscot, Kennebec, and Merrimack Rivers are added in the second experiment; the semidiurnal lunar tide (M 2 ) is included as part of the open boundary forcing in the third experiment.

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