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Hidrografia costeira de Aveiro a Finisterra

Authors: Martins, Inês Marina Serra;

Hidrografia costeira de Aveiro a Finisterra

Abstract

O conhecimento adequado dos processos que ocorrem na plataforma continental é um pré requisito para um sistema operacional de observação costeira e previsão. O sistema hidrológico na área Norte da plataforma Oeste Ibérica não é ainda bem conhecido e os modelos existentes falham na sua descrição adequada, especialmente em condições extremas. Estudos recentes têm vindo a clarificar melhor o papel dos caudais fluviais e do vento no forçamento das correntes costeiras, contribuindo também para determinar as suas escalas espáciotemporais típicas. O principal objectivo deste trabalho consistiu na caracterização em termos hidrológicos da região da plataforma continental entre Aveiro e Finisterra em situação de Inverno. Para tal, nos Invernos de 2006 e 2007, efectuaram-se levantamentos de CTD, fundeou-se um ADCP para medir a corrente e a agitação marítima na plataforma interna e apoiou-se a discussão dos dados obtidos com informação meteorológica, caudais fluviais afectos à zona em estudo, maré e agitação marítima medida por uma bóia ondógrafo. Neste estudo sugere-se que o caudal fluvial, apesar de pouco elevado, é responsável pela indução da deriva de uma corrente costeira de superfície, capaz de promover um transporte efectivo para Norte de água, sedimentos e material biológico, provindos quer da plataforma quer das fontes estuarinas. Apesar da presença de flutuabilidade estuarina induzida, foi evidente que as alterações das estruturas hidrológicas responderam maioritariamente ao vento. Apenas se manifestou uma corrente para Norte durante o período de vento de Sul. A contribuição fluvial revelou-se demasiado fraca para contrariar este forçamento do vento. ABSTRACT: A proper understanding of the continental shelf process is a prerequisite for an operational system of coastal observations and forecast. The hydrologic system in the northern part of the west Iberian shelf is not yet well understood and the existing models fail to describe it adequately, especially in extreme conditions. Recent attempts have been done to better clarify the roles of buoyancy and wind in the coastal current forcing, as well as to disclose its typical space and time scales. The main purpose of this study was to characterize in hydrological terms the region of the continental shelf between Porto and Finisterre in a winter situation. With this propose, in the winters of 2006 and 2007, surveys of CTD were made, an ADCP was moored to measure currents and wave height, period and direction at the inner shelf. To discuss the data obtained, meteorological information, runoff at the studied area, tide and directional wave data measured at a wavescan buoy were collected. It is hypothesised in this study that river runoff, though not very high, is likely to induce a buoyancy driven coastal current capable of promoting an effective northward transport of water, sediments and biological material from both shelf and estuarine sources. Although the presence of estuarine induced buoyancy was evident in the hydrographic structures, their changes responded mainly to the wind. A northward current was present only during the period of southerlies, and buoyancy revealed to be too weak to counteract the wind reversal.

Mestrado em Meteorologia e Oceanografia Física

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Portugal
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Keywords

Litoral, Oceanografia, Hidrografia

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