An Investigation of Seasonal Upwelling Along the Atlantic Coast of Florida

摘要: Abstract Subsurface water temperature data are combined with time series of coastal winds and mid shelf currents to investigate seasonal upwelling in waters off South Florida's Atlantic coast. Data from the summer 1978 indicate that cool moved onto by June remained there until early September. A near-bottom temperatures inner indicates three major periods cooling, lasting over intervals one weeks. Water decrease 3° 7°C. More transient cooling events recorded throughout record. The effect up-welling is levels characteristic winter or late spring. coherence just beyond break low, not significantly coherent either longshore cross-shelf component windstress. It therefore unlikely Ekman dynamics play a role driving along this part Mid shelf, current scales excess about two days. This suggests occurs as dynamic adjustment variations Florida Current.