Effect of internal waves on intrusions in a thermocline and on upwelling

Samolyubov, B. I.; Ivanova, I. N.

doi:10.3103/s1541308x15010124

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“…Separated jets can transport sediments and organic matter away from sloping beds (McPhee‐Shaw 2006; Masunaga et al 2017; Tian et al 2019), forming thin layers of high sediment concentration called “intermediate nepheloid layers” (INLs). INLs may transport significant sediment volumes toward lake interiors (Ostrovsky and Yacobi 1999; Samolyubov and Ivanova 2015). In Lacamas, high ADCP backscatter was observed within jets (Fig.…”

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Periodic boundary layer separation and lateral intrusions observed above a sloping lakebed

Nielson

Henderson

2022

Limnology & Oceanography

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Lateral intrusions flowing from the boundaries of lakes and oceans might influence basin-scale distributions of heat, chemical solutes, sediments, and organisms. Here, observations of numerous intrusions from multiple locations in a small lake were used to examine the relation of intrusions to a lakewide internal seiche, and to estimate mean exchange between sloping bottom boundary layers (BBLs) and the lake interior. BBL waters were observed periodically separating from the bed and flowing laterally offshore. Boundary layer separation was initiated where strong downslope flows encountered upslope-propagating temperature fronts. These separation events propagated upslope, coherent with the vertically propagating internal seiche, resembling previously reported cases of upslope-propagating internal bores. Following separation, jets flowed offshore immediately above temperature fronts, transporting boundary layer water at least 61 m into the interior. Jet propagation could be traced upwards, from the bed at 9.4 m depth to the base of the surface mixed layer. Mean offshore transport was most intense within the metalimnion (4-7 m depth). Intruding intermediate-temperature thermocline water was likely supplied both by river inputs and by boundary mixing of cold and warm waters. These findings suggest that periodic jets, resulting from seiche-induced boundary layer separation, transported significant quantities of water from the boundary layer toward the stratified lake interior, with possible implications for distributions of sediments, solutes, and organisms.

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