Arctic Upper Ocean Studies

Abstract

The goal of the project is to 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, 1997
Accession Number
ADA629404

Entities

People

  • Miles G. Mcphee

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Birds
  • Boundaries
  • Boundary Layer
  • Buoyancy
  • Heat Energy
  • Heat Flux
  • High Latitudes
  • Ice
  • Layers
  • Oceans
  • Physics Laboratories
  • Polar Regions
  • Sea Ice
  • Sedimentation
  • Temperature Gradients
  • Turbulence
  • Turbulent Mixing

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science
  • Physics

Readers

  • Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Dynamics.
  • Polar and Arctic Studies