Resposta da Plataforma Continental Sudeste a ventos sazonais e sinóticos de verão: estudos numéricos / Response of the South Brazil bight to summer seasonal and synoptic winds: numerical studie

AUTOR(ES)

Alexandre Luiz Coelho

DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2008

RESUMO

In order to study the pertubations caused on the South Brazil Bigth (SBB) caused by the passage of a cold front during Summer, a mean basic state for currents was obtained using the POM (Princeton Ocean Model) through diagnostic simulation, followed by a short round prognostic. The mean currents modeled are in certain instancies similar to the currents measured by meter moorings deployed by the Directorate of Hydrography and Navigation (DHN), and by Oceanographic Institute of the University São Paulo during the Projects Oceanic Circulation in the Western South Atlantic (COROAS) and Dynamic of the Ecosystem of the Shelf of the Western South Atlantic Region (DEPROAS), validating results model. During the cold front passage, the currents invert six to nine hours after the passage of the frontal system through each region of the SBB. The stages of coastal subsidence were modeled, with coastward wind drift transport at superficial layer and offshore compensation transport throughout the water column, with piling of water in the coastal region. The strength of the barotropic pressure gradient developed caused the formation and intensification of a coastal jet. During this transient stage associated with the passage of the frontal system, the Tropical Water approaches the coast within sub-surface layer, mixing with continental shelf waters. The portion of SBB located to the South of São Sebastião Island is the portion which is most influenced by the passage of the frontal system. In a normal direction to the coast, the geostrophic balance predominates, being intensified during the passage of the cold front, while along the coast, the waters is diverted from this balance by the wind stress and by the local acceleration, which tend to have opposite signs. Near Cananéia, there is the highest sea level elevation, which may be associated with a mechanism of resonance between the winds of the frontal system and the Continental Shelf Waves generated by the wind, since they have the same speed of propagation. The continental shelf acquires cyclonic relative vorticity during the passage of the cold front.

ASSUNTO(S)

subsidência pom verão continental shelf waves correntes ondas de plataforma frente fria subsidence currents vorticidade pom cold front pcse summer vorticity south brazil bight

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