Dense water overflows off continental shelves

EU project INTAS-99-1600 (2000-2003)
Marine Building COAST laboratory Wave Flume.

Dense water overflows off continental shelves (cascading)

  • Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory, NERC, Bidston, UK
  • Institute of Marine Studies, University of Plymouth, UK
  • Scientific Coordination Center TSUNAMI, Moscow,Russia
  • Oceanological Faculty, Russian State Hydrometeorological University, St.Petersburg, Russia
  • Centre for Marine and Climate Research, University of Hamburg, Germany
  • Dynamic Great Mass Institute, Council of Research, Venezia, Italy
  • P.P.Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, Moscow, Russia
  • Ocean-Air Interaction Department, State Research Centre Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute, St. Petersburg, Russia
  • Condensed Matter Laboratory, A.V. Luikov Heat and Mass Transfer Institute, Minsk, Belorussia
Objectives
  • Improve understanding and modelling of dense water overflows, ie. "cascading" as a meso-scale process
  • Extrapolate from specific observations (focused on the edge of the continental shelf) using generic models and
  • Estimate its influence on fluxes of dissolved and particulate matter between the shelf and open ocean in the bottom boundary layer.

Publications

Shapiro, G.I., and Hill, A. E. 2003. The Alternative density structures of cold/salt water pools on a sloping bottom: the role of friction. Journal of Physical Oceanography33, No 2., 390-406 (pdf).
Shapiro, G.I., Huthnance, J.M. and Ivanov, V.V. 2002. Dense water cascading off the continental shelf. Journal of Geophysical Research, 108 (C12): art. no. 3390, Dec 30, 2003 (pdf). 
Ivanov, V.V., Shapiro, G.I., Huthnance, J.M. Aleynik, D.L. and Golovin, P.N. 2003. Cascades of Dense Water Around the World Ocean. Progress in Oceanography, 60, 1, 47-98.

Conference presentations

Huthnance,J., Shapiro, G.I.,Ivanov, V.V., Akivis, T., Golovin, P., and Fine, I. 2002. Cascading off continental shelves. Challeger Centenary Conference: Marine Science2002. Plymouth, 9-13 September 2002. Book of abstracts, p.43.
Huthnance, J. 2002. Cascading off continental shelves. EGS XXVII General Assembly, Nice, France, April 2002 (abstract). 
Shapiro, G.I.; Ivanov, V.V., Huthnance, J. and Aleynik, D.L. Dense water overflow off continental shelves. EGS XXVII General Assembly, Nice, France, April 2002 (abstract). 
Aleynik, D.L. 2002. Adaptive grid method for the search of cascading events in data sets . EGS XXVII General Assembly, Nice, France, April 2002 (abstract). 
Ivanov, V.V.; Shapiro, G.I., 2002. Parameters of dense water cascades as estimated from cross-slope hydrographic sections. EGS XXVII General Assembly, Nice, France, April 2002 ( abstract). 
Ivanov, V.; Golovin, P.,2002. The features of dense water cascades in the Western Arctic Seas. EGS XXVII General Assembly, Nice, France, April 2002 (abstract). 
Bergomasco, A., Defendi, V., Spezie, A., Budillon, G. and Carniel, S., 2002. Note on the Ross Sea shelf water downflow processes (Antarctica). EGS XXVII General Assembly, Nice, France, April 2002 (abstract). 
Shapiro G.I., Ivanov, V.V., Huthnance, J. and Aleynik. D.L. 2003. Dense water overflow off continental shelves. Ocean margin research Conference, Paris (France), 15-17 September, 2003 (poster). 
Ivanov V. V. and Shapiro, G.I. Features of dense water cascades off the Arctic shelves, ACSYS Final Conference, St.Petersburg, Russia, November 11-14, 2003 (poster).