Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

On the problem of the Neva river flood waves identification

  • Published:
Russian Meteorology and Hydrology Aims and scope Submit manuscript

Abstract

Based on the analysis of the measurements of hydrometeorological characteristics, the identification is corroborated of the Neva River flood waves as the baroclinic topographic waves. It is demonstrated that during the formation and maximum development of the most significant sea level rises in the Neva Bay, the stratification in the Gulf of Finland still remains pronounced despite the storm conditions. The baroclinic nature of the flood wave is indicated by the significant changes in the dispersion of currents with depth with their direction changing to the reverse one as it occurs in the first baroclinic mode wave. Directions of major axes of the standard deviation ellipses are oriented not along the isobaths as it should be in case of long gravity waves (being the longitudinal ones) but are extended across the bottom topography contours that is typical of gradient-vorticity waves assigned to the class of horizontal transverse waves.

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this article

Log in via an institution

Price excludes VAT (USA)
Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout.

Instant access to the full article PDF.

Similar content being viewed by others

References

  1. A. E. Antonov, Climatology of the Extraordinary Neva River Floods and Their Forecasting (Gidrometeoizdat, St. Petersburg, 2001) [in Russian].

    Google Scholar 

  2. T. V. Belonenko, E. A. Zakharchuk, and V. R. Fuks, Gradient-Vorticity Waves in the Ocean (St. Petersburg. Gos. Univ., St. Petersburg, 2004) [in Russian].

    Google Scholar 

  3. V. V. Efimov, E. A. Kulikov, A. B. Rabinovich, and I. V. Fain, Waves in the Border Areas of the Ocean (Gidrometeoizdat, Leningrad, 1985) [in Russian].

    Google Scholar 

  4. E. A. Zakharchuk, N. A. Tikhonova, and V. R. Fuks, “The Neva River Floods and Yanai Waves. Abstracts of the Report,” in Concluding Session of the St. Petersburg Section of Scientific Board of the State Oceanographic Institute for 2008 (SPO GOIN, St. Petersburg, 2009) [in Russian].

    Google Scholar 

  5. E. A. Zakharchuk and N. A. Tikhonova, “On the Spatiotemporal Structure and Mechanisms of the Neva River Flood Formation,” Meteorol. Gidrol., No. 8 (2011) [Russ. Meteorol. Hydrol., No. 8, 36 (2011)].

    Google Scholar 

  6. N. N. Zubov, Dynamic Oceanology (Gidrometeoizdat, Moscow-Leningrad, 1947) [in Russian].

    Google Scholar 

  7. P. Le Blond and L. Mysak, Waves in the Ocean (Mir, Moscow, 1981) [Transl. from Engl.].

    Google Scholar 

  8. Methodological Letter on the Probabilistic Analysis of Vector Time Series of Current Velocity and Wind Speed, Ed. by V. A. Rozhkov (Gidrometeoizdat, Leningrad, 1984) [in Russian].

    Google Scholar 

  9. Yu. D. Mikhailov, “Specific Features of Variations of Sea Level and Currents in the Gulf of Finland in Case of Storm Surges in the Neva River Estuary in December 1961,” Trudy GOIN (Trans. State Oceanogr. Inst.), Issue 81 (1964) [in Russian].

    Google Scholar 

  10. Yu. D. Mikhailov, “A Relation between the Current and the Sea Level in the Gulf of Finland During the Floods in Leningrad,” Trudy GOIN (Trans. State Oceanogr. Inst.), Issue 79 (1966) [in Russian].

    Google Scholar 

  11. R. A. Nezhikhovskii, The Neva River and Neva Bay (Gidrometeoizdat, Leningrad, 1981) [in Russian].

    Google Scholar 

  12. J. Pedlosky, Geophysical Hydrodynamics (Mir, Moscow, 1984) [Transl. from Engl.].

    Google Scholar 

  13. Consolidated Scientific and Engineering Report on Theme 176 “Method of Leningrad Floods Forecasting” (LO GOIN, Leningrad, 1966) [in Russian].

  14. V. N. Sukhachev, K. G. Smirnov, E. A. Zakharchuk, and Yu. P. Klevantsov, “Peculiarities of Variability of Hydrological Characteristics in the Eastern Part of the Gulf of Finland Based on the Measurements at the St. Petersburg Division of State Oceanographic Institute Bottom Station,” in Collected Papers “Our Common Gulf of Finland”. Proceed. the 1st Scientific Conference of St. Petersburg State University “2014 is a Year of the Gulf of Finland” (St. Petersburg. Gos.000. Univ., St. Petersburg, 2012) [in Russian].

    Google Scholar 

  15. B. A. Tareev, Dynamics of Baroclinic Disturbances in the Ocean (Mosk. Gos. Univ., Moscow, 1974) [in Russian].

    Google Scholar 

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. St. Petersburg Division of the State Oceanographic Institute, ul. Beringa 38, V. O., St. Petersburg, 199397, Russia

    E. A. Zakharchuk & V. N. Sukhachev

Authors
  1. E. A. Zakharchuk
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  2. V. N. Sukhachev
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Additional information

Original Russian Text © E.A. Zakharchuk, V.N. Sukhachev, 2013, published in Meteorologiya i Gidrologiya, 2013, No. 3, pp. 66–74.

About this article

Cite this article

Zakharchuk, E.A., Sukhachev, V.N. On the problem of the Neva river flood waves identification. Russ. Meteorol. Hydrol. 38, 185–190 (2013). https://doi.org/10.3103/S1068373913030072

Download citation

  • Received:

  • Published:

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.3103/S1068373913030072

Keywords

Search

Navigation