Barrier layers in the tropical Atlantic Ocean: Growth and decay mechanisms and impact of Amazon river runoff

Link:

http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:gbv:18-ediss-88822

Autor/in:

Saha, Aurpita

Beteiligte Personen:

Stammer, Detlef
Serra, Nuno

Verlag/Körperschaft:

Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Hamburg Carl von Ossietzky

Erscheinungsjahr:

2020

Medientyp:

Text

Schlagworte:

barrier layer
tropical Atlantic Ocean
Amazon river runoff
freshwater
North Brazil Current rings
ITCZ
550: Geowissenschaften
ddc:550:

Beschreibung:

In this thesis the freshwater changes and the underlying processes in the northern tropical and subtropical Atlantic Ocean are investigated by analyzing daily outputs of high-resolution eddy-resolving numerical simulations of the Atlantic Ocean using MITgcm. The impacts of small-scale ocean processes like eddies and fronts embedded in the regional circulation, on the evolution of barrier layers i.e. stratification in the upper-ocean are investigated. The growth and decay mechanisms of the barrier layers in the tropical Atlantic Ocean are identified and quantified. Moreover, with numerical sensitivity experiments, I explore the impacts of extreme and realistic changes in the Amazon river discharge on the northern tropical Atlantic ocean circulation and upper-ocean barrier layers.

Lizenzen:

http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2
info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Quellsystem:

E-Dissertationen der UHH

Interne Metadaten

Quelldatensatz: oai:ediss.sub.uni-hamburg.de:ediss/8722