Abstract: he Reynolds stress equation is modified to include the Craik?Leibovich vortex force, arising from the interaction of the phase-averaged surface wave Stokes drift with upper-ocean turbulence. An algebraic second-moment ...

Abstract: prior second-moment closure (SMC) model of Langmuir turbulence in the upper ocean is modified by introduction of inhomogeneous pressure?strain rate and pressure?scalar gradient closures that are similar to the high Reynolds ...

Abstract: ccurately scaling Langmuir turbulence (LT) in the ocean surface boundary layer (OSBL) is critical for improving ocean, weather, and climate models. The physical processes by which the structure of LT depends on surface ...

Abstract: The scaling of turbulent kinetic energy (TKE) and its vertical component (VKE) in the upper ocean boundary layer, forced by realistic wind stress and surface waves including the effects of Langmuir circulations, is ...

Abstract: The effects of upward buoyancy on the accuracy with which Lagrangian floats can measure the Eulerian mean variance ?ww?E and skewness SwE of vertical fluid velocity w in the wind-driven upper-ocean boundary layer is ...

Abstract: A monthlong field survey in July 2007, focused on the North Pacific subtropical frontal zone (STFZ) near 30°N, 158°W, combined towed depth-cycling conductivity?temperature?depth (CTD) profiling with shipboard current ...

Abstract: Measurements of deep convection from fully Lagrangian floats deployed in the Labrador Sea during February and March 1997 are compared with results from model drifters embedded in a large eddy simulation (LES) of the rapidly ...

Abstract: ertical velocities in the world?s oceans are typically small, less than 1 cm s?1, posing a significant challenge for observational techniques. Seaglider, an autonomous profiling instrument, can be used to estimate vertical ...