Extended Analysis of Near-bottom Turbulence Measurements Obtained During the Coastal Mixing and Optics Experiment

Abstract

Long Term Goals. The long-term goals associated with this project are to quantify turbulence and to understand the mechanisms and implications of turbulent mixing in the bottom boundary layer of the coastal ocean. Objectives. the specific objectives of this project are to test, in the continental shelf bottom boundary layer, (1) simplified budgets for turbulent kinetic energy and scalar variance, (2) flux-profile relationships for momentum and scalars, and (3) vertically integrated momentum and heat balances.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 30, 1999
Accession Number
ADA629684

Entities

People

  • J. H. Trowbridge

Organizations

  • Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Boundaries
  • Boundary Layer
  • Continental Shelves
  • Energy
  • Fluid Dynamics
  • Fluid Mechanics
  • Heat Balance
  • Heat Energy
  • Information Operations
  • Kinetic Energy
  • Layers
  • Measurement
  • Mixing
  • Turbulence
  • Turbulent Mixing

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science
  • Physics

Readers

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