High-resolution Quantification of Turbulent Mixing in the North Indian Ocean During the Monsoons

Abstract

The overarching goals are to investigate the roles of vertical and lateral turbulent mixing processes in setting the spatial and temporal variability of temperature and salinity observed in the upper ocean surface of the Bay of Bengal. Understanding such processes will help improve the parametrization of momentum and heat fluxes across the air-sea interface in coupled circulation models as well as enhance the current capabilities of monsoon predictions.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 30, 2014
Accession Number
ADA624412

Entities

People

  • Sutanu Sarkar

Organizations

  • University of California, San Diego

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Buoyancy
  • Fluids
  • Fresh Water
  • Heat Flux
  • High Resolution
  • Indian Ocean
  • Instability
  • Layers
  • Mixing
  • Navier Stokes Equations
  • Observation
  • Oceanography
  • Oceans
  • Pressure Gradients
  • Salinity
  • Turbulent Mixing
  • Water

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

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