Abstract: Vertical spectra of temperature perturbations are due to (i) internal wave displacement in the mean profile and (ii) fine-structure that would still be measured in the absence of internal waves. The former is probably ...

Abstract: Hamon et al.(1975) analyzed two years of surface current data from ships' set along two tracks parallel to 560 km of the east Australian shelf and found a phase lag of 10 days between long (120 day) period current fluctuations ...

Abstract: An attempt is made to Parameterized the large-Scale average diapycnal (cross-isopycnal) mixing that presumably occurs in the thermohaline fronts that develop when large-scale epipycnal (along-isopycnal) gradients of T and ...

Abstract: In a rotating gratified fluid, with small Ekman number E and Rossby number Ro, vertical diffusion of momentum is balanced by local deceleration for large values of the Burger number S, and hence leads to an increase in S. ...

Abstract: Phillips has shown that an undulating motion of a layered medium relative to a measuring instrument will result in a σ?2 spectrum (frequency or wavenumber) over a bandwidth determined by the thickness of the layers and of ...

Abstract: Attempts to predict the impact on a tidal regime of large engineering structures are generally based on the use of a numerical model which is calibrated to reproduce the natural tidal regime and then rerun with the structures ...

Abstract: During the initial stages of the deepening of the surface mixed layer, the rate of increase of potential energy is proportional to the input of energy to the mixed layer by the wind. In an attempt to reconcile an apparent ...

Abstract: We present an analysis of 50 days of current meter and sea Revel data collected in a long narrow strait connecting the Gulf of St. Lawrence to the Atlantic Ocean. The dynamical balances implied by a scale analysis of the ...

Abstract: The Green's function for a semi-infinite ocean with depth a function of distance from the boundary is developed numerically for the M2 frequency and with Coriolis frequency and depth profile appropriate to the continental ...

Abstract: Earlier work has suggested that internal wave reflection off sloping bottoms may cause significant diapycnal mixing in the deep ocean, and may also represent an important sink of internal wave energy. Most theories have ...