Upper Ocean Mixing Due to Nonlinear Internal Waves Over the Continental Shelf

Abstract

My long term goals are to observe and model internal wave, surface gravity wave, and boundary layer processes which contribute to turbulent mixing in the coastal ocean using new instrumentation techniques.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 1998
Accession Number
ADA548385

Entities

People

  • Timothy P. Stanton

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Sensors

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Amplitude
  • Backscattering
  • Boundary Layer
  • Coastal Regions
  • Continental Shelves
  • Data Acquisition
  • Diffusivity
  • Displacement
  • Energy
  • Frequency
  • Gravity Waves
  • Instrumentation
  • Internal Waves
  • Observation
  • Regions
  • Turbulent Mixing
  • Waves

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

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