Finescale Structure of the Temperature-Salinity Relationship

Abstract

The long term goal of this project is to understand the processes that establish the temperature-salinity relationship in the ocean, with emphasis on the interplay between advection at the large scale, eddy stirring at the mesoscale and turbulent mixing at the finescale. The objectives of this proposal are (1) to unfold the processes that participate in the creation of the temperature-salinity relationship in two high-resolution data sets, the North Atlantic Tracer Release Experiment (NATRE) and the Salt Finger Tracer Release Experiment (SFTRE), and (2) to determine the relative importance of eddy stirring and turbulent mixing process in the ocean interior with a combination of numerical and theoretical tools.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 30, 2003
Accession Number
ADA618710

Entities

People

  • Kurt L. Polzin
  • Raffaele Ferrari

Organizations

  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acoustic Scattering
  • Advection
  • Data Sets
  • Diffusion
  • High Resolution
  • Kinetic Energy
  • Massachusetts
  • Microstructure
  • Mixing
  • Oceans
  • Planetary Sciences
  • Production
  • Salinity
  • Temperature Gradients
  • Turbulence
  • Turbulent Mixing
  • Water Masses

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

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