Structured and Inhibited Mixing on the Continental Shelf

Abstract

A goal is to understand diapycnal mixing process during the stratified summer season in the temperate continental shelf environment. This understanding is required to correctly account for the effects of mixing in coastal ocean models. These effects influence modeled (and actual) density fields, and thus flows, as well as modeled and actual distributions of dissolved and suspended material.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 23, 2007
Accession Number
ADA473366

Entities

People

  • Timothy F Duda

Organizations

  • Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Sensors

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Conductivity
  • Continental Shelves
  • Contracts
  • Data Acquisition
  • Data Visualization
  • Engineering
  • Environment
  • Flow Visualization
  • Frequency
  • Gravity Waves
  • Materials
  • Measurement
  • Military Research
  • Rhode Island
  • Temperature Gradients
  • Water

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

  • Aerospace Test and Evaluation
  • Marine Ecotoxicology
  • Ocean-Atmosphere Mesoscale Modeling, Data Assimilation, and Flux Boundary Layers