Currents and Stratification on the Continental shelf to the Southwest of San Clemente Island, CA
Abstract
Results of moored current, pressure, temperature and salinity measurements from January 2006 to July 2007 at 130 m depth on the continental shelf offshore Eel Point, San Clemente Island, CA, (mooring located at 32° 55.73'N, 118° 35.50'W) are presented. Statistics for the flow and stratification are presented including probability distribution functions, empirical orthogonal functions, and spectra. The flow field was dominated by persistent poleward flow with two-three flow reversal events per six month period. The structure and possible causes of these flow reversal events are described. Tidal analyses are also presented; higher harmonics of the M2 tide were statistically significant for the onshore flow component.
- Publication:
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AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts
- Pub Date:
- December 2007
- Bibcode:
- 2007AGUFMOS41A0174A
- Keywords:
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- 4217 Coastal processes;
- 4219 Continental shelf and slope processes (3002);
- 4223 Descriptive and regional oceanography;
- 4227 Diurnal;
- seasonal;
- and annual cycles (0438);
- 4516 Eastern boundary currents