Finescale Structure of the Temperature-Salinity Relationship

Abstract

The long term goal of this project is to understand the processes that establish the temperature-salinity relationship in the ocean, with emphasis on the interplay between advection at the large scale, eddy stirring at the mesoscale and turbulent mixing at the finescale. The objectives of this proposal are (1) to unfold the processes that participate in the creation of the temperature-salinity relationship in two high-resolution data sets, the North Atlantic Tracer Release Experiment (NATRE) and the Salt Finger Tracer Release Experiment (SFTRE), and (2) to determine the relative importance of eddy stirring and turbulent mixing in the ocean interior with a combination of numerical and theoretical tools.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 17, 2005
Accession Number
ADA436440

Entities

People

  • Kurt L. Polzin
  • Raffaele Ferrari

Organizations

  • Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acoustic Signals
  • Advection
  • Data Sets
  • Dissipation
  • High Resolution
  • Internal Waves
  • Measurement
  • Microbalances
  • Microstructure
  • Mixing
  • Physical Oceanography
  • Salinity
  • Temperature Gradients
  • Thermoclines
  • Turbulence
  • Turbulent Mixing
  • Water Masses

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

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