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AN: OS41A-0174    [Abstracts]
TI: Currents and Stratification on the Continental shelf to the Southwest of San Clemente Island, CA
AU: * Armijo, C
AF: Department of Oceanography, Naval Postgraduate School, 833 Dyer Road, Bldg 232, Rm 328, Monterey, CA 93943, United States
AU: Bahr, F
AF: Department of Oceanography, Naval Postgraduate School, 833 Dyer Road, Bldg 232, Rm 328, Monterey, CA 93943, United States
AU: Collins, C
EM: collins@nps.edu
AF: Department of Oceanography, Naval Postgraduate School, 833 Dyer Road, Bldg 232, Rm 328, Monterey, CA 93943, United States
AB: Results of moored current, pressure, temperature and salinity measurements from January 2006 to July 2007 at 130 m depth on the continental shelf offshore Eel Point, San Clemente Island, CA, (mooring located at 32° 55.73'N, 118° 35.50'W) are presented. Statistics for the flow and stratification are presented including probability distribution functions, empirical orthogonal functions, and spectra. The flow field was dominated by persistent poleward flow with two-three flow reversal events per six month period. The structure and possible causes of these flow reversal events are described. Tidal analyses are also presented; higher harmonics of the M2 tide were statistically significant for the onshore flow component.
DE: 4217 Coastal processes
DE: 4219 Continental shelf and slope processes (3002)
DE: 4223 Descriptive and regional oceanography
DE: 4227 Diurnal, seasonal, and annual cycles (0438)
DE: 4516 Eastern boundary currents
SC: Ocean Sciences [OS]
MN: 2007 Fall Meeting