Small-Scale Turbulence and Mixing in the Ocean (eBook)

Front Cover 1
Small-Scale Turbulence and Mixing in the Ocean 4
Copyright Page 5
FOREWORD 6
LIST OF PARTICIPANTS 12
TABLE OF CONTENTS 8
Chapter 1. INTRODUCTION 16
Chapter 2. SMALL-SCALE TURBULENCE AND MIXING IN THE OCEAN: A GLOSSARY 18
Chapter 3. THE USE OF DELIBERATELY INJECTED TRACERS FOR THE STUDY OF DIAPYCNAL MIXING IN THE OCEAN 26
Chapter 4. SOME IMPLICATIONS OF OCEAN MIXING FOR OCEAN MODELLING 36
Chapter 5. MERITS AND DEFECTS OF DIFFERENT APPROACHES TO MIXED LAYER MODELLING 52
Chapter 6. THE INCLUSION OF A SURFACE MIXED LAYER IN A LARGE-SCALE CIRCULATION MODEL 66
Chapter 7. MODELLING TURBULENCE IN SHALLOW SEA REGIONS 78
Chapter 8. TURBULENT FIELDS ASSOCIATED WITH THE GENERAL CIRCULATION IN THE NORTHERN BERING SEA 92
Chapter 9. EMBEDDING STRATIFICATION MODELS IN OCEAN GENERAL CIRCULATION CLIMATE MODELS 110
Chapter 10. SIMULATION OF THE MIXED LAYER IN A GLOBAL OCEAN GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL 124
Chapter 11. A THERMODYNAMIC MODEL OF THE GLOBAL SEA-SURFACE TEMPERATURE AND MIXED-LAYER DEPTH 138
Chapter 12. COASTAL OCEAN RESPONSE TO ATMOSPHERIC FORCING 156
Chapter 13. PARAMETERIZATION OF VERTICAL DIFFUSION IN A NUMERICAL MODEL OF THE BLACK SEA 166
Chapter 14. LONG-TERM SIMULATIONS OF UPPER OCEAN VERTICAL MIXING USING MODELS OF DIFFERENT TYPES 184
Chapter 15. SOME DYNAMICAL AND STATISTICAL PROPERTIES OF EQUATORIAL TURBULENCE 200
Chapter 16. TURBULENT DISSIPATION IN THE STRAIT OF GIBRALTAR AND ASSOCIATED MIXING 216
Chapter 17. MICROSTRUCTURE AND VERTICAL VELOCITY SHEAR DISTRIBUTION IN MONTEREY BAY 228
Chapter 18. MEDITERRANEAN SALT LENSES 244
Chapter 19. ESTIMATES OF MIXING INFERRED FROM TEMPERATURE AND VELOCITY MICROSTRUCTURE 254
Chapter 20. THE MIXING OF MEDDY "SHARON" 264
Chapter 21. MIXING AND LARGE-SCALE OCEAN DYNAMICS 278
Chapter 22. VORTICAL MOTIONS 300
Chapter 23. THE RELATION BETWEEN LAGRANGIAN AND EULERIAN SPECTRA: A CONNECTION BETWEEN LARGE-SCALE WAVES AND SMALL-SCALE TURBULENCE 318
Chapter 24. EVIDENCE AND CONSEQUENCES OF FOSSIL TURBULENCE IN THE OCEAN 334
Chapter 25. MEASURING TURBULENT TRANSPORTS IN STRATFIED FLOWS 350
Chapetr 26. NEW APPROACH TO COX NUMBER IN QUASI-HOMOGENEOUS LAYERS 368
Chapetr 27. THEORIES OF INTERNAL WAVE INTERACTION AND STABLY STRATIFIED TURBULENCE: TESTING AGAINST DIRECT NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTATION 378
Chapter 28. THE INFLUENCE OF BOTTOM DISSIPATION ON WAVE GROWTH 394
Chapter 29. INTERNAL TIDAL OSCILLATIONS AND WATER COLUMN INSTABILITY IN THE UPPER SLOPE REGION OF THE BAY OF BISCAY 402
Chapter 30. ESTIMATES OF VERTICAL MIXING BY INTERNAL WAVES REFLECTED OFF A SLOPING BOTTOM 420
Chapter 31. BENTHIC BOUNDARY LAYERS ON SLOPES 440
Chapter 32. MIXING IN A THERMOHALINE STAIRCASE 450
Chapter 33. MIXING IN THE THERMOHALINE STAIRCASE EAST OF BARBADOS 468
Chapter 34. LAYER THICKNESSES AND EFFECTIVE DIFFUSIVITIES IN "DIFFUSIVE" THERMOHALINE CONVECTION IN THE OCEAN 486
Chapter 35. EXPLAINING EFFECTIVE DIFFUSIVITIES WITHIN DIFFUSIVE OCEANIC STAIRCASES 496
Chapter 36. NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS ON THERMOHALINE CONVECTIVE MOTIONS ACROSS INTERFACES OF INTRUSIONS 518
Chapter 37. REYNOLDS NUMBER EFFECTS ON TURBULENCE IN THE PRESENCE OF STABLE STRATIFICATION 532
Chapter 38. COMMENT ON "REYNOLDS NUMBER EFFECTS ON TURBULENCE IN THE PRESENCE OF STABLE STRATIFICATION" 544
Chapter 39. REPLY 546
Chapter 40. AN OVERVIEW OF THE 19TH INTERNATIONAL LIEGE COLLOQUIUM ON OCEAN HYDRODYNAMICS "SMALL-SCALE TURBULENCE AND MIXING IN THE OCEAN"