3D Spectral Element Ocean Model Simulations

Shelf Bank Case

Top: Across shore density at a location just upstream of the shelfbank at time = 20 days.
Bottom: Across shore density at a location just downstream of the shelfbank at time = 20 days.
Note the more dense water in the downstream (southern) transect, particularly along the bottom and the steeper horizontal density gradient in the alongshore jet in the south. Click here to retrieve an flc animation of density at these two across-shore sections.

Harold P. Batchelder
Last Updated: 23 February 2001