Abstract: A strong debate has continued for a number of years over the magnitude of the ratio of the buoyancy flux b to the rate of production of turbulent kinetic energy from the mean velocity sheer. This ratio has traditionally ...

Abstract: The definition of the flux Richardson number Rf is generalized to be the ratio of the turbulent buoyancy flux b to the net turbulent mechanical energy m available from all sources. For mechanically energized turbulence ...

Abstract: A laboratory experiment has been constructed to Model the deep convective processes in a stratified ocean driven by the energetic cooling at the ocean surface. For convenience in the laboratory the authors have examined ...

Abstract: The authors consider the flow in a semienclosed sea, or basin, subjected to a destabilizing surface buoyancy flux and separated from a large adjoining reservoir by a sill. A series of numerical experiments were conducted ...

Abstract: AbstractWe present a statistical method for reconstructing continuous background density profiles that embeds incomplete measurements and a physically intuitive density stratification model within a Bayesian hierarchal ...