Quantifying Turbulence in the Coastal Environment

Abstract

The long-term goal is enhanced understanding and models of stratified turbulence and small-scale coherent structures, leading to improved predictions of conditions in coastal marine environments The objectives are to: Develop a new methodology for measuring stratified turbulence and coherent structures in coastal environments. Obtain turbulence measurements sufficient for a critical evaluation of turbulence closure models and large eddy simulations in stratified flows under a wide range of conditions. Quantify the interactions of turbulence, sub-mesoscale and mesoscale motions in estuarine environments.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 30, 2006
Accession Number
ADA611947

Entities

People

  • John Trowbridge
  • Rocky Geyer

Organizations

  • Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Sensors

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Boundaries
  • Boundary Layer
  • Buoyancy
  • Detectors
  • Environment
  • Flow
  • Fluid Dynamics
  • Fluid Mechanics
  • High Resolution
  • Instrumentation
  • Kinetic Energy
  • Large Eddy Simulation
  • Measurement
  • Remote Sensing
  • Tidal Currents
  • Turbulence
  • Turbulent Flow

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

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