From Stirring to Mixing in a Stratified Ocean. Proceedings Hawaiian Winter Workshop (12th) Held in the University of Hawaii at Manoa on January 16-19, 2001

Abstract

Stirring and mixing are the physical processes that convert variance from the eddy to the molecular scale and that may need to be parameterized in ocean models. This scale range is highly complex and contains many physical processes. The workshop focused especially on: The parameterization of mesoscale eddies; General approaches to stirring, including the application of ideas from dynamical systems theory; Inertial instability, submesoscale motions, and vortical motions; The interplay of isopycnal and diapycnal processes; Processes in the surface mixed layer; The stirring and mixing of biologically active tracers; Mixing efficiency, i.e. the fraction of energy lost from the mean flow that produces a vertical buoyancy flux, and Differential mixing of heat and salt.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 19, 2001
Accession Number
ADA412459

Entities

People

  • Diane Henderson
  • Peter R. Müeller

Organizations

  • University of Hawaiʻi System

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Ground and Sea Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Boundary Layer
  • Buoyancy
  • Climate Change
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics
  • Computational Science
  • Fluid Dynamics
  • Fluid Flow
  • Geography
  • Mathematical Models
  • Oceanography
  • Physics Laboratories
  • Ridges
  • Sea Water
  • Standing Waves
  • Topography
  • Turbulent Mixing
  • Two Dimensional

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

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