Diapycnal Mixing in a Coastal Regime

Abstract

LONG-TERM GOALS: To identify the major processes producing mixing in the upper ocean and to understand their dynamics sufficiently well to permit accurate parameterization of mixing for use in numerical models. OBJECTIVES: This was the first attempt we know of to survey a coastal domain with sufficient coverage to assess how mixing levels vary across the domain. Previous measurements have been concentrated in subregions, often revealing particular mixing processes, but insufficient to guide modelers in how to represent mixing over the whole domain.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 30, 2006
Accession Number
ADA612671

Entities

People

  • Jack Miller
  • Michael Gregg

Organizations

  • University of Washington

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Continental Shelves
  • Doppler Sonar
  • Dynamics
  • Information Operations
  • Measurement
  • Microstructure
  • Physics
  • Physics Laboratories
  • Tidal Currents

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

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