Finescale Structure of the Temperature-Salinity Relationship

The long term goal of this project is to understand the processes that establish the temperature-salinity relationship in the ocean, with emphasis on the interplay between advection at the large scale, eddy stirring at the mesoscale and turbulent mixing at the finescale. The objectives of this propo...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Polzin, Kurt L., Ferrari, Raffaele
Other Authors: WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION MA DEPT OF PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY
Format: Text
Language:English
Published: 2005
Subjects:
Physical and Dynamic Oceanography
Fluid Mechanics
*TEMPERATURE
*SALINITY
EDDIES(FLUID MECHANICS)
ADVECTION
TURBULENT DIFFUSION
ACOUSTIC SIGNALS
MIXING
*FINESCALE
*EDDY STIRRING
*TURBULENT MIXING
North Atlantic
Online Access:http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/ADA436440
http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?&verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=ADA436440
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Summary:The long term goal of this project is to understand the processes that establish the temperature-salinity relationship in the ocean, with emphasis on the interplay between advection at the large scale, eddy stirring at the mesoscale and turbulent mixing at the finescale. The objectives of this proposal are (1) to unfold the processes that participate in the creation of the temperature-salinity relationship in two high-resolution data sets, the North Atlantic Tracer Release Experiment (NATRE) and the Salt Finger Tracer Release Experiment (SFTRE), and (2) to determine the relative importance of eddy stirring and turbulent mixing in the ocean interior with a combination of numerical and theoretical tools. Prepared in cooperation with Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA. The original document contains color images.

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