Dense water overflows off continental shelves (cascading),
     EU project INTAS-99-1600 (2000-2003)

Partners:

• Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory, NERC, Bidston, UK
• Institute of Marine Studies, University of Plymouth, UK
• Scientific Coordination Center TSUNAMI, Moscow,Russia
• Oceanological Faculty, Russian State Hydrometeorological University, St.Petersburg, Russia
• Centre for Marine and Climate Research, University of Hamburg, Germany
• Dynamic Great Mass Institute,  Council of Research, Venezia, Italy
• P.P.Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, Moscow, Russia
• Ocean-Air Interaction Department, State Research Centre Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute, St. Petersburg, Russia
• Condensed Matter Laboratory, A.V. Luikov Heat and Mass Transfer Institute, Minsk, Belorussia

Objectives:
The project aims to:

• improve understanding and modelling of dense water overflows, ie. "cascading" as a meso-scale process
• extrapolate from specific observations (focused on the edge of the continental shelf) using generic models and
• estimate its influence on fluxes of dissolved and particulate matter between the shelf and open ocean in the bottom boundary layer.

Journal Publications:

• Shapiro, G.I., and A.E.Hill, 2003. The alternative density structures of cold/salt water pools on a sloping bottom: the role of friction. J. Phys. Oceanogr. 33, No 2., 390-406.  (.pdf file)
• G. I. Shapiro, J. M. Huthnance, V. V. Ivanov, 2002. Dense water cascading off the continental shelf. J. Geophys Res-Oceans, 108 (C12): art. no. 3390, Dec 30, 2003  (pdf.file)
• V.V. Ivanov, G.I .Shapiro, J.M. Huthnance, D.L. Aleynik, P.N. Golovin. 2003. Cascades of Dense Water Around the World Ocean. Progress in Oceanography, 60, 1, 47-98.   
  

Conference Presentations:

• J.Huthnance,G.Shapiro, V.Ivanov, T.Akivis, P.Golovin, I.Fine. Cascading off continental shelves. Challeger Centenary Conference: Marine Science 2002. Plymouth, 9-13 September 2002. Book of abstracts, p.43. 
(Abstract)
• J. Huthnance, 2002. CASCADING OFF CONTINENTAL SHELVES.  EGS XXVII General Assembly, Nice, France, April 2002 (Abstract)
• SHAPIRO, G.I.; IVANOV, V.V.; HUTHNANCE, J.M.; ALEINIK, D.L. Dense water overflow off continental shelves. EGS XXVII General Assembly, Nice, France, April 2002 (Abstract).
• ALEYNIK, D.L. 2002. Adaptive grid method for the search of cascading events in data sets . EGS XXVII General Assembly, Nice, France, April 2002 (Abstract).
• IVANOV, V.V.; SHAPIRO, G.I., 2002. Parameters of dense water cascades as estimated from cross-slope hydrographic sections. EGS XXVII General Assembly, Nice, France, April 2002 (Abstract).
• IVANOV, V.; GOLOVIN, P.,2002. The features of dense water cascades in the Western Arctic Seas. EGS XXVII General Assembly, Nice, France, April 2002 (Abstract).
• BERGAMASCO, A.; DEFENDI, V.; SPEZIE, A.; BUDILLON, G.; CARNIEL, S., 2002. Note on the Ross Sea shelf water downflow processes (Antarctica). EGS XXVII General Assembly, Nice, France, April 2002 (Abstract).
• Shapiro G.I., V.V.Ivanov, J.M.Huthnance, D.L.Aleinik. 2003. Dense water overflow off continental shelves. Ocean margin research Conference, Paris (France), 15-17 September, 2003 (Abstract, Poster)
• Ivanov V.,G.I.Shapiro, Features of dense water cascades off the Arctic shelves, ACSYS Final Conference, St.Petersburg, Russia, November 11-14, 2003 (Poster)