Arctic Upper Ocean Studies

Abstract

My goals are to investigate and understand the turbulent transfer of momentum, heat, salt, and other scalar contaminants in naturally occurring boundary layers of the ocean, and to apply this knowledge to understanding air-ice-ocean interaction in polar regions.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 30, 2002
Accession Number
ADA627792

Entities

People

  • Miles G. Mcphee

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Sensors

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Birds
  • Boundaries
  • Boundary Layer
  • Coefficients
  • Energy
  • Environmental Pollutants
  • Equations
  • Heat Energy
  • Heat Flux
  • Layers
  • Momentum
  • Oceans
  • Polar Regions
  • Regions
  • Sea Ice
  • Turbulence
  • Turbulent Mixing

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

  • Atmospheric Science / Meteorology, specifically Wind Wave Turbulence.
  • Ocean-Atmosphere Mesoscale Modeling, Data Assimilation, and Flux Boundary Layers
  • Polar and Arctic Studies