Seasonal Variations of Currents over the Western Slope of the Middle Caspian Bed
- Authors: Ambrosimov A.K.1, Klyuvitkin A.A.1, Lisitsyn A.P.1
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Affiliations:
- Shirshov Institute of Oceanology
- Issue: Vol 45, No 5 (2018)
- Pages: 685-694
- Section: Hydrophysical Processes
- URL: https://journals.rcsi.science/0097-8078/article/view/174638
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1134/S0097807818050020
- ID: 174638
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Abstract
Results of field observations of current dynamics in the frontal zone of the western Middle Caspian are given. The cyclonic circulation over the western slope in winter is shown to be a unidirectional intense current with velocities up to 100 cm/s. In summer, the current slows down and separates into branches—it turns southwestward and westward at the slope depth down to 150 m, southward and southeastward at the depth of ~100–350 m, and eastward at larger depths. In summer, shelf currents interact with the flow of Middle Caspian cyclonic circulation, resulting in that anticyclonic vortices reach the shelf.
About the authors
A. K. Ambrosimov
Shirshov Institute of Oceanology
Author for correspondence.
Email: ambrosimov@ocean.ru
Russian Federation, Moscow, 117997
A. A. Klyuvitkin
Shirshov Institute of Oceanology
Email: ambrosimov@ocean.ru
Russian Federation, Moscow, 117997
A. P. Lisitsyn
Shirshov Institute of Oceanology
Email: ambrosimov@ocean.ru
Russian Federation, Moscow, 117997
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