Marine Turbulence (eBook)

Front Cover 1
Marine Turbulence 4
Copyright Page 5
Contents 12
Foreword 6
Acknowledgments 8
List of Participants 10
Chapter 1. The turbulent ocean 14
Chapter 2. The influence of meridional boundaries upon Rossby wave rectification processes 34
Chapter 3. Spectral structure of horizontal oceanic turbulence - Semi - empirical models 56
Chapter 4. Intrusive fine structure in frontal zones and indication of double diffusion 70
Chapter 5. Resonant and non - resonant wave- wave interactions for internal gravity waves 78
Chapter 6. Kinetic energy dissipation observed in the upper ocean 114
Chapter 7. Observations of air - sea interaction parameters in the open ocean 116
Chapter 8. Dissipation in the mixed layer near Emerald Basin 136
Chapter 9. Zero crossings of temperature microstructure 148
Chapter 10. Dissipation measurements of ocenic turbulence 156
Chapter 11. Shear instability generation of the turbulence in the ocean (field evidences) 170
Chapter 12. Small -scale oceanic turbulence 180
Chapter 13. Some fundamental aspects of turbulence with implications in geophysical flows 188
Chapter 14. Nonlinear evolution and structure of salt fingers 206
Chapter 15. Fossil temperature , salinity , and vorticity turbulence in the ocean 234
Chapter 16. Variations with height of the turbulence in a tidally - induced bottom boundary layer 272
Chapter 17. Spatially varying turbulence production in tidal channels 300
Chapter 18. A laser - Doppler velocimeter for small scale turbulence studies in the sea 316
Chapter 19. Estimation of shearing stresses in a tidal current with application to the Irish Sea 332
Chapter 20. Shear effect .dispersion in a shallow tidal sea 358
Chapter 21. Dispersion in a tidal sea 376
Subject Index 388