Proceedings of Hawaiian Winter Workshop (6th) on Dynamics of Oceanic Internal Gravity Waves Held in Manoa, Hawaii on 15-18 January 1991

Contents: Internal Wave Shear and Dissipation; Internal Wave Dissipation in a Non-Garrett-Munk Ocean; Testing the Critical Reflection Hypothesis; Observations of Near-Inertial Internal Waves and Mixing in the Seasonal Thermocline; On the Statistics of Fine Scale Strain in the Thermocline; Spatial St...

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Main Authors: Mueller, Peter, Henderson, Diane
Other Authors: HAWAII UNIV HONOLULU SCHOOL OF OCEAN AND EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
Format: Text
Language:English
Published: 1991
Subjects:
Physical and Dynamic Oceanography
*INTERNAL WAVES
THERMOCLINES
SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION
SCATTERING
MODELS
INTERACTIONS
DYNAMICS
ENERGY
MOTION
DISSIPATION
VORTICES
REFLECTION
BOUNDARIES
SEASONAL VARIATIONS
WINTER
MODEL TESTS
MIXING
INVERSION
HYPOTHESES
OCEANS
NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN
ABYSSAL ZONES
LOW STRENGTH
EXCHANGE
HAWAII
WAVES
WORKSHOPS
SHEAR PROPERTIES
MATHEMATICAL MODELS
*OCEAN WAVES
GRAVITY WAVES
GARRETT MUNK WAVES
SALINITY GRADIENTS
Munk
North Atlantic
Online Access:http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/ADA245650
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Summary:Contents: Internal Wave Shear and Dissipation; Internal Wave Dissipation in a Non-Garrett-Munk Ocean; Testing the Critical Reflection Hypothesis; Observations of Near-Inertial Internal Waves and Mixing in the Seasonal Thermocline; On the Statistics of Fine Scale Strain in the Thermocline; Spatial Structure of Thermocline and Abyssal Internal Waves; Estimates of Small- Scale Horizontal Divergence and Relative Vorticity in the Ocean; Measurements of Ertel Vorticity Fine structure in the Eastern North Atlantic; Symmetry Preserving Mode Truncations of Inviscid Geophysical Fluid Dynamical Equations; Weak Wave and Vortex Interactions, Internal Wave-Wave Resonance Theory: Fundamentals and Limitations; Choosing Variables for internal Wave Dynamics; Is Scattering or Reflection More Effective in Causing Boundary Mixing; On the Exchange of Energy Between Surface and Internal Wave Fields; The Saturation of Middle-Atmosphere Gravity Waves; Diagnosing Diapycnal Mixing; Energy Transfers Across an Internal Wave/Vortical Mode Spectrum; Large-Eddy Simulation of Internal Wave Motions; Numerical Modeling of the Large-Scale Dynamics of Internal Waves; Parameterizing Mixing in Inverse Models; Oceanic Model Testing; and Acoustic Implications of a New Model.

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