Upper Ocean Mixing

Abstract

The long-term goal is to identify the major processes producing mixing in the upper ocean and to understand their dynamics sufficiently well to permit developing accurate parameterizations of mixing for use in numerical models.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 30, 2001
Accession Number
ADA624732

Entities

People

  • Jack B. Miller
  • Michael C. Gregg

Organizations

  • University of Washington

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Black Sea
  • British Columbia
  • Continental Shelves
  • Dynamics
  • Flow
  • Flow Separation
  • Internal Waves
  • Kinetic Energy
  • Mixing
  • Models
  • New England
  • Oceans
  • Physics
  • Physics Laboratories
  • Three Dimensional
  • Turbulent Mixing
  • Waves

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

  • Coastal Oceanography