caa a22 4500 477058345 CHVBK 20180405111353.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170330e19960901xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/BF01874901 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/BF01874901 Effects of along-shore wind stress and surface cooling on the formation of shelf sea fronts in a simple air-sea interaction model [Elektronische Daten] [Lian Xie, Leonard Pietrafesa, Sethu Raman] This paper presents numerical simulation results from a set of control and sensitivity experiments on the effects of winter-time air-sea interaction on the variability of sea surface temperature (SST) on a two-dimensional continental shelf which is uniform in the along-shore direction and is bounded to the west by a straight coast and to the east by a prescribed Gulf Stream front. In the control experiment, the model ocean circulation is driven by a time-dependent wind forcing which is parameterically coupled to the cross-shelf SST gradient. In the sensitivity experiments, wind stress, diabatic cooling and air-sea coupling are turned on separately to estimate the individual contribution of each effect to the cross-shelf SST variation. Experiments have also been carried out for different coupling strengths and diabatic cooling rates to examine the model sensitivity to these paramenters. The model results indicate that air-sea interaction could induce a secondary SST front on the shelf. Comparisons of model results with observations obtained during the Genesis of Atlantic Lows Experiment conducted off the east coasts of the Carolinas during January and February 1986 qualitatively confirm our finding. Baltzer Science Publishers BV, 1996 Xie Lian Department of Marine, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, North Carolina State University, Box 8208, 27695-8208, Raleigh, NC, USA aut Pietrafesa Leonard Department of Marine, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, North Carolina State University, Box 8208, 27695-8208, Raleigh, NC, USA aut Raman Sethu Department of Marine, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, North Carolina State University, Box 8208, 27695-8208, Raleigh, NC, USA aut Environmental Modeling & Assessment Kluwer Academic Publishers 1/3(1996-09-01), 139-149 1420-2026 1:3<139 1996 1 10666 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01874901 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01874901 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Xie Lian Department of Marine, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, North Carolina State University, Box 8208, 27695-8208, Raleigh, NC, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Pietrafesa Leonard Department of Marine, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, North Carolina State University, Box 8208, 27695-8208, Raleigh, NC, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Raman Sethu Department of Marine, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, North Carolina State University, Box 8208, 27695-8208, Raleigh, NC, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Environmental Modeling & Assessment Kluwer Academic Publishers 1/3(1996-09-01), 139-149 1420-2026 1:3<139 1996 1 10666 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer