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Turbulence in the Upper-Ocean Mixed Layer

Annual Review of Marine Science, 2014
Nearly all operational models of upper-ocean mixing assume that the turbulence responsible for this mixing is driven by the atmospheric fluxes of momentum, heat, and moisture and the shear imposed by the ocean circulation. This idealization is supported by historical measurements of dissipation rate within the boundary layer. Detailed measurements made
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Turbulence in the Stratified and Rotating World Ocean

Theoretical and Computational Fluid Dynamics, 1998
This is an overview of knowledge, derived mainly from observations, of turbulence in the stratified and rotating World Ocean from the 1960s, when mesoscale motions with scales of 30–150 km and 100 days were discovered by neutrally buoyant floats, to the present decade and the use of SF6“purposeful tracer” release study in the North Atlantic.
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Turbulence of the Indian Ocean

2017
As the third largest ocean in the world, the Indian Ocean covers an area of 74.9 million km2 and is surrounded by Asia, Oceania, Africa and Antarctica. It is separated from the Pacific Ocean in the southeast by the longitude line from southeast corner of Tasmania to the Antarctic continent.
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Turbulence in a stratified ocean

1972
Vertical distributions of potential temperature and salinity in the interior Pacific (excluding the top and bottom few hundred meters) can be reasonably fitted by exponential-like distributions with a scale height of i km. The observed distribution of C 14 and other radio isotopes suggests an "overturn time" of somewhat less than i000 years.
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An Introduction to Ocean Turbulence

2007
This textbook provides an introduction to turbulent motion occurring naturally in the ocean on scales ranging from millimetres to hundreds of kilometres. It describes turbulence in the mixed boundary layers at the sea surface and seabed, turbulent motion in the density-stratified water between, and the energy sources that support and sustain ocean ...
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Oceanic and interstellar fossil turbulence

AIP Conference Proceedings, 1988
Turbulence in the stratified ocean is inhibited at large scales by gravity, leaving internal waves and partially mixed fluctuations in the density field called fossil turbulence. Information about previous turbulence activity is preserved by the fossil remnants of 3‐D and possibly 2‐D turbulence.
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Testing Turbulence Closure Models against Oceanic Turbulence Measurements

2001
Abstract : The long-term goals of this project are to quantify turbulence and to understand the dynamics and implications of turbulent mixing in the coastal ocean.
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Oceanic Turbulence and the Langmuir Circulations

Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics, 1971
All branches of marine science are affected in one way or another by the general propensity of fluids in motion to exhibit very complicated tortuous paths that are beyond our detailed measurement and description. We call these motions turbulence, "an irregular condition of flow in which the fluid properties vary with time and space in such a complex ...
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Oceanography: Turbulence in the Ocean.

Science, 1986
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Small-Scale Oceanic Turbulence

1980
Publisher Summary The analysis of small-scale turbulence spectral characteristics has led to the revision of earlier existing notions of oceanic turbulence as a well developed flow at very high Reynolds number. In most cases, the turbulence in the ocean has no clear-cut ranges of universal similarity, a consequence of the small values of the Reynolds
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