Figure 1. The Gulf of Maine.
Figure 1. The Gulf of Maine.
Figure 2. Schematic of the Maine Coastal Current. There are three branch points at Penobscot, Cape Ann, and Great South Channel; and seven segments: Eastern, Jordan, Western, Massachusetts, Stellwagen, Nantucket, and Georges Bank.
Figure 3a. G2S.5B Mesh. There are 10277 nodes and 19919 triangular elements.
Figure 3b. CSTB.1A Mesh. There are 3618 nodes and 6618 triangular elements.
Figure 4a. MA Gulfwide streamfunction. The contour spacing is 0.1Sv. This and subsequent figures have been rotated 24 degrees clockwise.
Figure 4b. MA residual surface elevation. The contour interval is 1 cm.
Figure 5. MA velocity patterns at selected depths. Bathymetric contours are shown at 60,100, and 200 meters.
Figure 6. MA drifters fixed at 60m below surface. Trajectories are computed in tidal time and plotted at 12.42 hour intervals. Triangle indicates start position; asterisk and cross mark positions at 30 and 60 days respectively.
Figure 7. MJ Gulfwide streamfunction. The contour spacing is 0.1 Sv.
Figure 8. Residual surface elevation (meters) along CSTB.1A boundary for MA and MJ, interpolated from the G2S.5B Gulfwide solution.
Figure 9a. MA coastal mesh streamfunction. The contour spacing is 0.05 Sv.
Figure 9b. MA vertically averaged residual velocity. Bathymetric contours are shown at 60, 100, and 200 meters.
Figure 10. MA velocity detail at the St. John outflow. In this and similar upcoming figures the circles mark river source location.
Figure 11. MA velocity detail at the Penobscot branch point.
Figure 12. MA velocity detail at the Cape Ann branch point.
Figure 13. MA drifter trajectories drogued at 10m depth on the coastal mesh.
Figure 14a. MJ streamfunction, coastal mesh. The contour spacing is 0.05 Sv.
Figure 14b. MJ vertically averaged residual velocity. Bathymetric contours are shown at 60, 100, and 200 meters.
Figure 15. MJ velocity detail at the St. John outflow.
Figure 16. MJ velocity detail at the Penobscot branch point.
Figure 17. MJ velocity detail at the Cape Ann branch point.
Figure 18. MA with tide only on the CSTB.1A mesh. Vertically averaged velocity.
Figure 19. MA with no wind on the CSTB.1A mesh. Vertically averaged velocity.
Figure 20. MA without sources on the CSTB.1A mesh. Vertically averaged velocity.
Figure 21. MA with no local baroclinicity on the CSTB.1A mesh. Vertically averaged velocity.
Figure 22. MA with residual boundary elevation clamped at zero on the CSTB.1A mesh. Vertically averaged velocity.