1. ANA-KARINA RAMOS MUSALEM
Information acquired: 2025
ANA-KARINA RAMOS MUSALEM is an academic who published a paper in 2020 entitled Transport through submarine canyons. ANA-KARINA RAMOS MUSALEM published this work as part of a team: Ramos Musalem, Ana Karina. Here is a description of this work: Exchanges of water, nutrients, and oxygen between coastal and open ocean are key components of on-shelf nutrient budgets and biogeochemical cycles. Submarine canyons are underwater topographic features that incise the continental shelf and enhance physical processes such as cross-shelf mass exchanges and mixing. There is a good understanding of the flow around upwelling submarine canyons; however, the flux of biologically relevant tracers and the collective impact of canyons is less well understood. This dissertation investigates the collective impact of submarine canyons on cross-shelf exchange of tracers and water and their distribution on the shelf, taking into account the impact of locally-enhanced mixing within the canyon and the initial geometry of the tracer profile. I performed numerical experiments, using the Massachusetts Institute of Technology general circulation model.