Investigation of Meteorological Effects on Currents in the Shelf and Continental Slope Seas Northwest of the U.K. 1. Analyses for Individual Moorings

摘要

The report describes analyses of data from the continental shelf and slope northwest of the United Kingdom in the period 19 August 1982 to 23 March 1983. Current meter data are included, notably from the Continental Slope Experiment (CONSLEX), and also sea-levels, sea-floor pressures and temperatures, atmospheric pressure and winds. The series were low-pass filtered to exclude inertial oscillations (period of approximately 14 hr) but retain periods exceeding 20 hr. Mean currents, and measures of variability and its character, are discussed for the filtered series. Some events (slope current reversals, particularly strong current fluctuations, exceptionally deep atmospheric depressions) were chosen for individual analysis.