Internal Waves in Straits Experiment

Abstract

Our long-term goal is to understand how energy is supplied to the ocean, and how it subsequently cascades to the turbulence and mixing important to the circulation, and the transport and distribution of tracers. This problem involves scales spanning sub-inertial motions to turbulence, and therefore requires integrative efforts with other sea-going investigators and numerical modelers. The South China Sea project was an ideal opportunity to investigate the cascade from internal tides to higher frequency waves though the processes of internal wave scattering and non-linear steepening.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 30, 2010
Accession Number
ADA542779

Entities

People

  • Jody M. Klymak

Organizations

  • University of Victoria

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Continental Slopes
  • Data Analysis
  • Demographic Cohorts
  • Dissipation
  • Energy
  • Extreme Environments
  • Frequency
  • High Resolution
  • Internal Waves
  • Oceans
  • Ridges
  • Solitons
  • South China Sea
  • Three Dimensional
  • Topography
  • Two Dimensional
  • Waves

Readers

  • Coastal Oceanography