Measuring Turbulence Mixing in Indonesian Seas using Microstructure EM-APEX Floats

Abstract

In collaboration with Ren-Chieh Lien [Award Number: N00014-15-1-2318] of the Applied Physics Laboratory University of Washington, the long-term scientific goals are to understand the dynamics and identify mechanisms of small-scale processesi.e., internal tides, inertial waves, nonlinear internal waves (NLIWs), and turbulence mixingin the ocean and their interaction with oceanic processes at larger scales. We aim to develop improved parameterizations of mixing for ocean models. For this study, our focus is on the turbulence mixing in Indonesian Seas, the surface mixed layer processes, inertial waves and internal tides, oceanic responses to atmospheric forcing, and effects of oceanic processes on air-sea fluxes. The ultimate goal is to improve our understanding of the atmosphere-ocean coupled system in Indonesian Seas.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 30, 2015
Accession Number
AD1014377

Entities

People

  • Arnold L. Gordon

Organizations

  • Lamont–Doherty Earth Observatory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Atmospheres
  • Diffusion
  • Dynamics
  • Electronic Mail
  • Internal Waves
  • Kinetic Energy
  • Microstructure
  • Physics
  • Physics Laboratories
  • Richardson Number
  • Sea Surface Temperature
  • Surface Temperature
  • Thermal Diffusion
  • Turbulence
  • Universities
  • Waves

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

  • Coastal Oceanography
  • Ocean-Atmosphere Mesoscale Modeling, Data Assimilation, and Flux Boundary Layers