📚 🌊 New paper alert
Variance of depth-averaged currents (top 500m) obtained from moored deployements. Image credit: Sam Tiéfolo Diabaté.
In this work, we ask whether the circulation changes recorded at various moorings on and around the Northwest European Shelf are related to the sea-level variability on the shelf. Focusing on timescales shorter than a year, we show the shelf sea-level variability is wind-driven and that it indeed is directly affecting long-shore current variability. These longshore current changes are found on the outer-shelf and only impinge on the upper slope.
The paper can be downloaded using the following link: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.csr.2025.105466. An entry for this article can be found here.
The authors are me, Neil Fraser (SAMS), Martin White(Uni Galway), Barbara Berx (Marine Scotland), Louis Marié (LOPS, Brest), and Gerard McCarthy (Maynooth University). In addition, this paper wouldn’t have been possible without numerous efforts in Ireland, UK and France, in collecting and sharing mooring data.
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