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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Main Authors: Ferrari, Raffaele, Polzin, Kurt L
Other Authors: MASSACHUSETTS INST OF TECH CAMBRIDGE DEPT OF EARTH ATMOSPHERIC AND PLANETARY SCIENCES
Format: Text
Language:English
Published: 2003
Subjects:
Physical and Dynamic Oceanography
*SALINITY
*TEMPERATURE
*VARIATIONS
ADVECTION
EDDY CURRENTS
MIXING
OCEANS
TURBULENCE
EDDY KINETIC ENERGY
EDDY STIRRING
MESOSCALE EDDIES
TURBULENT MIXING
North Atlantic
Online Access:http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/ADA618710
http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?&verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=ADA618710
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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 process in the ocean interior with a combination of numerical and theoretical tools. Prepared in cooperation with Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA.

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