Arctic Upper Ocean Studies

My goals are to investigate and understand the turbulent transfer of momentum, heat, salt, and other scalar contaminants in naturally occurring boundary layers of the ocean, and to apply this knowledge to understanding air-ice-ocean interaction in polar regions. Objectives of the project include (i)...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: McPhee, Miles G.
Other Authors: MCPHEE RESEARCH CO NACHES WA
Format: Text
Language:English
Published: 1998
Subjects:
Physical and Dynamic Oceanography
Fluid Mechanics
Thermodynamics
*TURBULENT BOUNDARY LAYER
*HEAT FLUX
*ARCTIC OCEAN
TIME SERIES ANALYSIS
SEA ICE
MOMENTUM TRANSFER
POLAR REGIONS
MATHEMATICAL MODELS
HEAT TRANSFER
UPPER OCEAN
SALT TRANSFER
AIR ICE OCEAN INTERACTIONS
OBL(OCEAN BOUNDARY LAYER)
UPPER OCEAN SYSTEMS
CTS(CONTINUOUS TIME SERIES)
Arctic
Arctic Ocean
Sea ice
Online Access:http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/ADA535089
http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?&verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=ADA535089
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Summary:My goals are to investigate and understand the turbulent transfer of momentum, heat, salt, and other scalar contaminants in naturally occurring boundary layers of the ocean, and to apply this knowledge to understanding air-ice-ocean interaction in polar regions. Objectives of the project include (i) gathering and analyzing turbulence data from the ocean boundary layer (OBL) under sea ice; (ii) developing techniques, including both new instrumentation and analysis methods, for determining turbulent fluxes in the boundary layer; (iii) combining measurements and theory (including numerical modeling) for concise descriptions of turbulent boundary layer scales; and (iv) using the results to develop parameterizations of important boundary layer processes for large scale numerical models of the sea ice/upper ocean system. See also ADM002252. The original document contains color images.

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