Stratified Flow over Rough, Sloping Topography

Abstract

The long-term goal is to understand the physics of flows generated by currents passing over small topographic features and to quantify, and parameterize if possible, the mixing these flows produce.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 30, 1999
Accession Number
ADA629721

Entities

People

  • Michael C. Gregg
  • Parker MacCready

Organizations

  • University of Washington

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Black Sea
  • Boundaries
  • Boundary Layer
  • Continental Slopes
  • Data Analysis
  • Flow
  • Internal Waves
  • Layers
  • Measurement
  • Oceans
  • Physics
  • Physics Laboratories
  • Ridges
  • Roughness
  • Simulations
  • Topography
  • Underwater Acoustics

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

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