Internal Gravity Waves and Small-Scale Turbulence: Proceedings of 'Aha Huliko'a Hawaiian Winter Workshop (2nd) Held at Manoa on January 17-20, 1984.

Abstract

Contents: Oceanic Shear Spectra from a Submarine; Towed Observations of Internal Waves and Patches of Fine-Scale Turbulence; The Transition from Kelvin-Helmholtz Instability to Turbulence; Internal Waves and Mixing in the Ocean: Observations and Speculations; Richardson Number Approach to Internal Wave Instability in the Ocean and Stratosphere; Recent Observations of Near-Inertial Frequency Internal Waves; The Wavenumber Frequency Spectrum of the Internal Wavefield; The Monthly Variability of the Upper-Ocean Internal Wave Energy: A Progress Report on the Correspondence with Wind Stress; Internal Wave Climatology: An Update; Estimates of Cross-Isopycnal Diffusivities from Climatological Hydrographic Data; Parameterizing the Effects of Internal Waves: Simple Ideas and Things We Need to Know; How Much Internal Wave Energy is Redistributed or Lost Through Bottom Reflection; Interaction of Internal Waves of Near-Inertial Frequencies; Transport of Small-Scale Internal Waves Toward Microstructure; Probing the Internal Wave Strong Interaction Regime by Numerical Experimentation; Small-Scale Vortical Motions; Stability of Inviscid Stratified Flows Under Nonlinear Perturbations; Closure for Turbulent Velocity/Pressure-Gradient Correlations in Nonuniform Flows; The Atmospheric Noise Spectrum-Waves or Stratified Turbulence?; New Directions in Internal Wave and Microstructure Research (reprinted from EOS).

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 1984
Accession Number
ADA149510

Entities

People

  • P. Müller
  • R. Pujalet

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Boundary Layer
  • Climate Change
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics
  • Computational Science
  • Doppler Effect
  • Energy Transfer
  • Fluid Dynamics
  • Oceanography
  • Physics Laboratories
  • Ridges
  • Seabed
  • Standing Waves
  • Stratified Fluids
  • Three Dimensional
  • Topography
  • Turbulence
  • Turbulent Mixing

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science
  • Physics

Readers

  • Academic Conference Management
  • Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Dynamics.
  • Ocean-Atmosphere Mesoscale Modeling, Data Assimilation, and Flux Boundary Layers

Technology Areas

  • Space