Topographic Effects on Shelf Waters and Spirals on the Sea

Abstract

The long- term goals are: To use measurements and develop theory for stratified flow past topography. To understand the relevant processes, including establishment of the high drag state, the role of boundary layer separation, entrainment, and the generation, propagation and dissipation of internal solitary waves. To elucidate the fluid dynamical processes associated with spiral eddies and other small scale vortices often observed in visible and SAR images from space and airborne platforms.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 30, 2001
Accession Number
ADA622575

Entities

People

  • Laurence Armi

Organizations

  • Scripps Institution of Oceanography

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acoustic Images
  • Aerial Photographs
  • Boundaries
  • Boundary Layer
  • Demographic Cohorts
  • Dissipation
  • Entrainment
  • Flow
  • Images
  • Layers
  • Measurement
  • Observation
  • Photographs
  • Platforms
  • Solitons
  • Topography
  • Waves

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

  • Atmospheric Science / Meteorology, specifically Wind Wave Turbulence.
  • Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Dynamics.

Technology Areas

  • Space