인문학
사회과학
자연과학
공학
의약학
농수해양학
예술체육학
복합학
지원사업
학술연구/단체지원/교육 등 연구자 활동을 지속하도록 DBpia가 지원하고 있어요.
커뮤니티
연구자들이 자신의 연구와 전문성을 널리 알리고, 새로운 협력의 기회를 만들 수 있는 네트워킹 공간이에요.
초록·키워드
Long time series of velocity profiles collected by up-looking acoustic profilers in the westernmost sill of the Strait of Gibraltar show an unexpected pattern in the deepest ∼80 m of the water column, consisting in an appreciable diurnal weakening of the measured horizontal velocity. A harmonic analysis performed on long time series reveals a surprising magnitude of S<sub>1</sub> constituent (exactly 1 cpd of frequency) in the horizontal velocity and echo amplitude, which prevails over the rest of diurnal constituents within this depth range, including K<sub>1</sub>, despite being around 200 times smaller than it in the tide generating potential. High resolution echograms collected by a new instrument recently installed in the mooring line, point at the diel vertical migration of living acoustic scatterers (zooplankton) as the most reasonable cause. It provokes a nightly depletion of scatterers availability near the bottom, which is registered by the instrument as a nighttime weakening of the velocity, as well as an increase of its uncertainty, at the deepest part of the profile. Newly acquired high spatial resolution measurements of the velocity near the seafloor report intense currents which are incompatible with the ones produced by the scatterers scarceness. This result indicates an overall underestimation of the Mediterranean current in previous works of approximately 17% within the depth range of 280-360 m, which in turn translates into an underestimation of previously computed outflow of ∼5%. These new findings make it necessary the re-computation of all the near-20-year long (to date) series of Mediterranean outflow based on the observations collected at this sill of the Strait of Gibraltar.
인공지능 문자 인식 모델을 통해 추출된 텍스트로, 일부 오타나 오류가 포함될 수 있으나 지속적으로 개선 중입니다.
오류를 발견하셨다면 해당 부분을 드래그한 후 ' 를 통해 신고해주세요.
오류를 발견하셨다면 해당 부분을 드래그한 후 ' 를 통해 신고해주세요.