10.18453/rosdok_id00001068
Wieczorek, Gunda
Gunda
Wieczorek
http://d-nb.info/gnd/1027479774
Spatiotemporal Scales of the Deep Circulation in the Eastern Gotland Basin/ Baltic Sea
Raum-zeitliche Skalen in der Tiefenzirkulation im östlichen Gotlandbecken der Ostsee
Universität Rostock
2011
550 Earth sciences
2011
en
http://purl.uni-rostock.de/rosdok/id00001068
urn:nbn:de:gbv:28-diss2012-0107-1
In the Eastern Gotland Basin small-scale mixing processes were analysed from hydrographic grids during the 1997/98 Major Inflow. Heat and salt diffusivities, decay rates of temperature and salt intrusions caused by the inflow were calculated. From two in the Stolpe Channel deployed ADCPs in 2006, dynamics of dense bottom currents and associated volume and salt transports were examined. The deep water showed characteristic fluctuations of 2-4 days and their steering mechanism were analysed. Currents and volume transports simulated by the MOM4 model matched estimated transports from the ADCPs.