Understanding Lateral Mixing in the Ocean: 100 m To 1 km

Abstract

The long-range goals of this research are to understand the submesoscale processes causing horizontal dispersion of momentum and scalar quantities over the continental shelf. Phenomena that may lead to horizontal dispersion and variability include: meandering coastal fronts and jets, stirring by the wind and tide, and nonlinear internal wave packets.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 30, 2008
Accession Number
ADA534104

Entities

People

  • Murray D. Levine

Organizations

  • Oregon State University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Continental Shelves
  • Dispersions
  • Field Tests
  • Information Operations
  • Instrumentation
  • Internal Waves
  • Landforms
  • Mixing
  • Momentum
  • Observation
  • Ocean Observing Systems
  • Oceanographic Equipment
  • Oceans
  • Students
  • Wave Packets
  • Waves

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

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