Researcher at Fiskaaling Sissal Vágsheyg Erenbjerg, PhD, has published a new publication in Ocean Science about the tidal flows through the Sundalagið Norður strait. The results are not quite as first thought. The title is: A tidally driven fjord-like strait close to an amphidromic region.
Here, we describe a strait that has narrow and shallow sills in both ends and is close to an amphidromic region. This generates tidally driven flows into and out of the strait, but with very different exchange rates across the entrances in both ends so that it behaves like a mixture between a strait and a fjord, Sissal Vágsheyg Erenbjerg explains.
By using a numerical model, the study found a fortnightly signal in the net transport through the strait, generated by long-period tides. The findings were verified by observations.
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The co-authors are Dr. Jon Albretsen, Dr. Knud Simonsen, Erna Lava Olsen, MSc, Professor Eigil Kaas, and Professor Bogi Hansen. The project was supported by Statoil, Mowi, Bakkafrost and Granskingarráðið.
Sissal Vágsheyg Erenbjerg, researcher at the Dept. of Fjord Dynamics at Fiskaaling, is also affiliated with the Niels Bohr Institute, Copenhagen University.
