Flow variability within the Alaska Coastal Current in winter

2017 ◽  
Vol 122 (5) ◽  
pp. 3884-3906 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ewa Jarosz ◽  
David Wang ◽  
Hemantha Wijesekera ◽  
W. Scott Pegau ◽  
James N. Moum
Keyword(s):  
Coastal Current ◽  
Flow Variability ◽  
Alaska Coastal Current

On the dynamics of the Alaska Coastal Current

1994 ◽  
Vol 14 (7-8) ◽  
pp. 831-845 ◽  
Author(s):  
Z. Kowalik ◽  
J.L. Luick ◽  
T.C. Royer
Keyword(s):  
Coastal Current ◽  
Alaska Coastal Current

Volume transport in the Alaska Coastal Current

1989 ◽  
Vol 9 (12) ◽  
pp. 1071-1083 ◽  
Author(s):  
James D. Schumacher ◽  
Phyllis J. Stabeno ◽  
Andrew T. Roach
Keyword(s):  
Volume Transport ◽  
Coastal Current ◽  
Alaska Coastal Current

scholarly journals Idealized Two-Dimensional Modeling of a Coastal Buoyancy Front, or River Plume, under Downwelling-Favorable Wind Forcing with Application to the Alaska Coastal Current

2010 ◽  
Vol 40 (2) ◽  
pp. 279-294 ◽  
Author(s):  
William J. Williams ◽  
Thomas J. Weingartner ◽  
Albert J. Hermann
Keyword(s):  
Wind Stress ◽  
River Plume ◽  
Coastal Current ◽  
Two Dimensional ◽  
Coriolis Parameter ◽  
Final State ◽  
Bottom Boundary Layers ◽  
The Cross ◽  
Alaska Coastal Current ◽  
Bottom Depth

Abstract The cross-shelf structure of a buoyancy-driven coastal current, such as produced by a river plume, is modeled in a two-dimensional cross-shelf slice as a “wide” geostrophically balanced buoyancy front. Downwelling-favorable wind stress applied to this front leads to advection in the surface and bottom boundary layers that causes the front to become steeper so that it eventually reaches a steep quasi-steady state. This final state is either convecting, stable and steady, or stable and oscillatory depending on D/δ* and by /f 2, where D is bottom depth, δ* is an Ekman depth, by is the cross-shelf buoyancy gradient, and f is the Coriolis parameter. Descriptions of the cross-shelf circulation patterns are given and a scaling is presented for the isopycnal slope. The results potentially apply to the Alaska Coastal Current, which experiences strong, persistent downwelling-favorable wind stress during winter, but also likely have application to river plumes subjected to downwelling-favorable wind stress.

The Alaska Coastal Current: Continuity of transport and forcing

1995 ◽  
Vol 100 (C2) ◽  
pp. 2477 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. J. Stabeno ◽  
R. K. Reed ◽  
J. D. Schumacher
Keyword(s):  
Coastal Current ◽  
Alaska Coastal Current
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