Diapycnal Mixing in a Coastal Regime - AESOP

Abstract

To identify the major processes producing mixing in the upper ocean and to understand their dynamics sufficiently well to permit accurate parameterization of mixing for use in numerical models.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 30, 2008
Accession Number
ADA533861

Entities

People

  • Jack B. Miller
  • Michael C. Gregg

Organizations

  • University of Washington

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Backscattering
  • Diffusion
  • Dissipation
  • Dynamics
  • High Resolution
  • Measurement
  • Oceans
  • Physical Oceanography
  • Physics
  • Physics Laboratories
  • Spectra
  • Stratified Fluids
  • Temperature Gradients
  • Thermal Diffusion
  • Tidal Currents
  • Turbulence

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

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