Abstract: Analytical expressions of internal wave spectra (and coherences) are presented, based on a variant of the Garrett and Munk (1975) model. The change is from a slope of ?2.5 to ?2 in wavenumber spectra, as suggested by recent ...

Abstract: Various statistics of temperature profiles are examined in an attempt to distinguish irreversible structures due to mixing from reversible distortions induced by internal wave straining. Even if all the low gradient regions ...

Abstract: Using the maximum likelihood estimation method, quasi-geostrophic wave solutions are fitted to the observations of the 1981 Ocean Acoustic Tomography Experiment. The experiment occupied a 300 km square area centered at ...

Abstract: The probability density function (pdf) of Richardson number in a Gaussian internal-wave field is derived. It is found to compare well with available data. The pdf depends on only parameter ?, the rms stain in the field, ...

Abstract: Discrimination between internal waves and finestructure in the ocean is made difficult because of over-lapping scales of each process. We have assumed as a working hypothesis that low frequency/wavenumber variability is ...

Abstract: During December 1991 to April 1992 measurements with moored acoustic Doppler current profiler (ADCP) stations and shipboard surveys were carried out in the convection regime of the Gulf of Lions, northwestern Mediterranean. ...