Lateral Mixing

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 Lateral Mixing Experiment project was an ideal opportunity to investigate the cascade from mesoscale processes to the submesoscale.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 30, 2011
Accession Number
ADA557133

Entities

People

  • Jody M. Klymak

Organizations

  • University of Victoria

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Cape Hatteras
  • Data Sets
  • Deployment
  • High Resolution
  • Information Operations
  • Internal Waves
  • Lepidoptera
  • Observation
  • Oceans
  • Sampling
  • Sargasso Sea
  • Schools
  • Transport Ships
  • Turbulence
  • Universities

Readers

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