Mixing, Internal Waves and Mesoscale Dynamics in the East China Sea

Abstract

The long-term goal of our research program is to better understand and quantify relationships between mesoscale dynamics, internal waves, and turbulence in shallow, tidally-affected seas. The objectives of the third year of the project were: (i) to determine the characteristics of microstructure and internal waves in the Yellow Sea (YS) at the end of the warming season when the stratification is favorable for generation of internal solitons of elevation (i.e. the surface boundary layer is thicker than the bottom layer whilst the pycnocline is narrow and sharp), and (ii) to obtain further observational information on the genesis of high-frequency non-linear internal waves packets and solitons during a specific phase of the barotropic tide, the period of interest being close to the low tide in the central East China Sea (ECS) and YS.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 30, 2007
Accession Number
ADA573352

Entities

People

  • Harindra Fernando
  • Iossif Lozovatsky

Organizations

  • Arizona State University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Boundary Layer
  • Buoyancy
  • Dynamics
  • East China Sea
  • Engineering
  • Fluid Dynamics
  • Frequency
  • Internal Waves
  • Kinetic Energy
  • Layers
  • Measurement
  • Mixing
  • Oceans
  • Richardson Number
  • Solitons
  • Waves
  • Yellow Sea

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

  • Coastal Oceanography
  • Oceanography.