Use of an AUV to Quantify Submesoscale Mixing Processes

Abstract

This project provided planning support to attend meetings and perform preliminary calculations for the ONR DRI Scalable Lateral Mixing and Coherent Turbulence project "Use of an AUV to Quantify Submesoscale Mixing Processes" which commenced in FY 09. The long-term goal of this project is to quantify the driving mechanisms and pathways of dissipation of lateral submesoscale mixing. A major thrust is understanding the role that cascade processes, both forward and backward, play in connecting submesoscale variability to 3D turbulence.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Nov 02, 2009
Accession Number
ADA514102

Entities

People

  • Louis Goodman

Organizations

  • University of Massachusetts Dartmouth

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Sensors

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Autonomous Underwater Vehicles
  • Communication Systems
  • Dissipation
  • Energy
  • Equations
  • Internal Waves
  • Kinetic Energy
  • Measurement
  • Oceanography
  • Scattering
  • Strain Rate
  • Three Dimensional
  • Turbulence
  • Two Dimensional
  • Underwater Vehicles
  • Vehicles
  • Waves

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

  • Ocean-Atmosphere Mesoscale Modeling, Data Assimilation, and Flux Boundary Layers
  • Technical Research and Report Writing.