Hu, S.1, C. Chen1, Bob Beardsley2
1
School for Marine Science and Technology, University of
Massachusetts-Dartmouth
2
Department of Physical Oceanography, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution,
Woods, MA 02543
The wind-induced Ekman transport was estimated using the 1995 and
1999 meso-scale wind fields predicted by the Gulf of Maine/Georges
Bank MM5 model. By choosing a 100-m isobath as a boundary of
Georges Bank closed with a straight line along 69° to west, the
wind-induced Ekman transport show a significant interannual
variability in 1995 and 1999. For example, the monthly averaged
Ekman transport was dominantly southward in February 1995 but it was
westward in February 1999, westward in March 1995 but southwestward
in March 1999. This interannual variability of the wind field is
believed to be directly related to the interannual differences of
the timing and intensity
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