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Simulation of surface and internal semidiurnal tides in the Kara Sea

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The problem of the dynamics of surface and internal waves M 2 in the Kara Sea is solved within the QUODDY-4 3D finite-element hydrostatic model. It is shown that the conventional concept of surface-tide wave generation due to the interaction of two tidal waves (one arrives from the Barents Sea and the other is generated in the Arctic Ocean (AO) and propagates southward along the west coasts of Severnaya Zemlya) is only partially valid: the east branch of the tidal wave generated in the AO actually exists, but there is also a west branch that propagates along the St. Anna trough and another tidal wave that penetrates in the Kara Sea from the Laptev Sea through the Vilkitsky Strait. Simulated spatial distributions of the tidal velocities, amplitudes of internal tidal waves at the pycnocline depth, and some components of the budgets of barotropic and baroclinic tidal energy are discussed.

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  1. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, St. Petersburg Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, 199053, Russia

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Original Russian Text © B.A. Kagan, A.A. Timofeev, 2017, published in Izvestiya Rossiiskoi Akademii Nauk, Fizika Atmosfery i Okeana, 2017, Vol. 53, No. 2, pp. 265–275.

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Kagan, B.A., Timofeev, A.A. Simulation of surface and internal semidiurnal tides in the Kara Sea. Izv. Atmos. Ocean. Phys. 53, 233–241 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0001433817020050

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