Eddy Generation Processes Associated with Islands

Abstract

My long term goal is to contribute to our understanding of the dynamics of the formation of eddies in the lee of oceanic islands, and their influence on primary productivity. Of particular interest to me are to quantify the relative importance of instability of the large scale currents, and local variations of the wind-stress curl, in exciting mesoscale eddies.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 30, 1997
Accession Number
ADA628217

Entities

People

  • Pierre Flament

Organizations

  • University of HawaiĘ»i System

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Sensors
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Data Sets
  • Demographic Cohorts
  • Doppler Radar
  • Frequency
  • Information Operations
  • Instability
  • Military Operations
  • Near Field
  • Observation
  • Ocean Currents
  • Oceans
  • Remote Sensing
  • Sea Surface Temperature
  • Shear Flow
  • Surface Temperature
  • Wind Stress

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

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