Abstract: A method is described for measuring the vertical component of velocity fluctuations due to three-dimensional turbulence in the ocean from a freely falling microstructure profiler. The dynamic pressure measurement relies ...

Abstract: Simultaneous measurements of vertical velocity fluctuations, w?, and temperature fluctuations, T?, on scales of three-dimensional turbulence yield a direct measure of the turbulent heat flux, Jq. The scales contributing ...

Abstract: A detailed investigation of the upper ocean during convection reveals ? the vertical structure of potential temperature, ?, to be steady in time, and ? the current shear to vanish in the bulk of the mixed layer. These imply ...

Abstract: Clear identification of the relatively weak superadiabatic potential temperature gradient in the ocean surface layer during convection has been made with the help of intensive vertical profiling measurements at an open-ocean ...

Abstract: The decay of a downward propagating near-inertial wave was observed over four days. During this short period, the energy of the near-inertial wave decreased by 70%. The shear layers produced by the wave were regions of ...

Abstract: A freely rising profiler was used to collect vertical microstructure profiles in the upper oceanic boundary layer under various atmospheric and sea conditions. Near the sea surface, the rate of viscous dissipation of ...

Abstract: s a quantitative test of moored mixing measurements using ?pods, a comparison experiment was conducted at 0°, 140°W in October?November 2008. The following three measurement elements were involved: (i) NOAA?s Tropical ...

Abstract: The authors report direct measurements of density flux at a single depth in a turbulent tidal flow, made by towing a CTD beside the vertical beam of a modified acoustic Doppler current profiler. The direct flux estimates ...

Abstract: A series of profiles of velocity microstructure along 152°E in the western North Pacific Ocean were collected in May?June 1982. Large, averaged turbulent dissipation rates, ?, found in the main thermocline (400 to 1000 m) ...

Abstract: Vaned, internally recording instruments that measure temperature fluctuations using FP07 thermistors, including fluctuations in the turbulence wavenumber band, have been built, tested, and deployed on a Tropical Atmosphere ...