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Mode-1 internal tides in the western North Atlantic Ocean
Affiliation:1. IRD/LEGOS, 14 av. Edouard Belin, 31400 Toulouse, France;2. INRIA/LJK, 51 rue des Mathmatiques, 38041 Grenoble, France;3. CNRS/LOCEAN, 4, place Jussieu, 75252 Paris, France;4. CNRS/LEGOS, 14 av. Edouard Belin, 31400 Toulouse, France;1. School of Mathematics and Maxwell Institute for Mathematical Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, EH9 3FD, United Kingdom;2. Department of Physics, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX1 3PU, United Kingdom;1. Research School of Earth Sciences, Australian National University, Australia;2. Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science, Australia;3. NOAA/Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton, USA;4. National Computational Infrastructure, Australian National University, Australia;5. Climate Change Research Centre, University of New South Wales, Australia
Abstract:Mode-1 internal tides were observed the western North Atlantic using an ocean acoustic tomography array deployed in 1991–1992 centered on 25°N, 66°W. The pentagonal array, 700-km across, acted as an antenna for mode-1 internal-tides. Coherent internal-tide waves with O(1 m) displacements were observed traveling in several directions. Although the internal tides of the region were relatively quiescent, they were essentially phase locked over the 200–300 day data record lengths. Both semidiurnal and diurnal internal waves were detected, with wavenumbers consistent with those calculated from hydrographic data. The M2 internal-tide energy flux was estimated to be about 70 W m−1, suggesting that mode-1 waves radiate 0.2 GW of energy, with large uncertainty, from the Caribbean island chain at this frequency. A global tidal model (TPXO 5) suggested that 1–2 GW is lost from the M2 barotropic tide over this region, but the precise value was uncertain because the complicated topography makes the calculation problematic. In any case, significant conversion of barotropic to baroclinic tidal energy does not occur in the western North Atlantic basin. It is apparent, however, that mode-1 internal tides have very weak decay and retain their coherence over great distances, so that ocean basins may be filled up with such waves. Observed diurnal amplitudes were an order of magnitude larger than expected. The amplitude and phase variations of the K1 and O1 constituents observed over the tomography array were consistent with the theoretical solutions for standing internal waves near their turning latitude. The energy densities of the resonant diurnal internal waves were roughly twice those of the barotropic tide at those frequencies.
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