Cross-shelf exchange associated with a shelf-water streamer at the Mid-Atlantic Bight shelf edge

WG Zhang, P Alatalo, T Crockford, AJ Hirzel… - Progress in …, 2023 - Elsevier
Significant exchanges between the Mid-Atlantic Bight (MAB) continental shelf and the
neighboring open ocean can be induced by shelf water streamers, submesoscale filaments …

A shelf water cascading event near Cape Hatteras

L Han, H Seim, J Bane, RE Todd… - Journal of Physical …, 2021 - journals.ametsoc.org
Abstract Carbon-rich Middle Atlantic Bight (MAB) and South Atlantic Bight (SAB) shelf waters
typically converge on the continental shelf near Cape Hatteras. Both are often exported to …

Mixing of shelf, slope and Gulf Stream water over the continental slope of the Middle Atlantic Bight

JH Churchill, ER Levine, DN Connors… - Deep Sea Research Part …, 1993 - Elsevier
A combination of water masses was observed over the continental slope between Cape
Hatteras and Hudson Canyon following the passage of a Gulf Stream meander. It was …

Shelf water entrainment by Gulf Stream warm-core rings between 75 W and 50 W during 1978–1999

AH Chaudhuri, JJ Bisagni, A Gangopadhyay - Continental Shelf Research, 2009 - Elsevier
Previous work concerning Gulf Stream warm-core rings (WCRs) and their associated shelf
water entrainments have been based upon single surveys or time series from individual …

Diurnal sea breeze effects on inner-shelf cross-shore exchange

J Hendrickson, J MacMahan - Continental Shelf Research, 2009 - Elsevier
Cross-shore exchange by strong (cross-shore wind stress, τsx> 0.05 Pa) diurnal (7–25h)
sea breeze events are investigated using two years of continuous wind, wave, and ocean …

Frontal subduction of the Mid‐Atlantic Bight shelf water at the onshore edge of a warm‐core ring

WG Zhang, J Partida - Journal of Geophysical Research …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
This work studies the subduction of the shelf water along the onshore edge of a warm‐core
ring that impinges on the edge of the Mid‐Atlantic Bight continental shelf. The dynamical …

Influence of a Gulf Stream warm-core ring on water mass and chlorophyll distributions along the southern flank of Georges Bank

JP Ryan, JA Yoder, DW Townsend - Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical …, 2001 - Elsevier
During late spring 1997, a Gulf Stream warm-core ring (WCR) strongly influenced water
mass and chlorophyll distributions along the southern flank of Georges Bank. Entrainment of …

Dynamics of the direct intrusion of Gulf Stream ring water onto the Mid‐Atlantic Bight shelf

WG Zhang, GG Gawarkiewicz - Geophysical Research Letters, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Onshore intrusions of offshore waters onto the Mid‐Atlantic Bight shelf can greatly affect
shelf circulation, biogeochemistry, and fisheries. Previous studies have concentrated on …

Hydrography of a shelf ecosystem inshore of a major Western Boundary Current

CS Russo, T Lamont, GCO Tutt… - Estuarine, Coastal and …, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract The Agulhas Current, the largest Western Boundary Current in the Southern
Hemisphere, strongly influences the oceanographic conditions of its adjacent shelf system …

Mesoscale and Submesoscale Shelf‐Ocean Exchanges Initialize an Advective Marine Heatwave

K Chen, G Gawarkiewicz, J Yang - Journal of Geophysical …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Observations and high‐resolution numerical modeling are used to investigate the dynamical
processes related to the initiation of an advective Marine Heatwave in the Middle Atlantic …