Extended Analysis of Near-Bottom Turbulence Measurements Obtained During the Coastal Mixing and Optics Experiment

Abstract

The long-term goals associated with this project are to quantify turbulence and to understand the mechanisms and implications of turbulent mixing in the bottom boundary layer of the coastal ocean. The specific objectives of this project are to test, in the continental shelf bottom boundary layer, (1) simplified budgets for turbulent kinetic energy and scalar variance, (2) simplified flux-profile relationships for momentum and scalars, and (3) vertically integrated momentum and heat balances.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 30, 2000
Accession Number
ADA609996

Entities

People

  • J. H. Trowbridge

Organizations

  • Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Sensors

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Boundaries
  • Boundary Layer
  • Buoyancy
  • Continental Shelves
  • Dynamics
  • Energy
  • Fluid Dynamics
  • Fluid Mechanics
  • Kinetic Energy
  • Layers
  • Measurement
  • Mechanics
  • Richardson Number
  • Shear Stresses
  • Travel Time
  • Turbulence
  • Turbulent Mixing

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science
  • Physics

Readers

  • Atmospheric Science / Meteorology, specifically Wind Wave Turbulence.
  • Oceanography.