Abstract: Measurements of the vertical component of the temperature gradient in Powell Lake show phenomena similar to those observed in the ocean. The gradient is an irregular function of depth, with temperature inversions indicating ...

Abstract: Scaling of the turbulent energy equation suggests the balance of terms in the ocean is between turbulent production, dissipation and the loss to buoyancy. In this paper two models for the source of oceanic turbulence are ...

Abstract: Vertical profiles of temperature microstructure were collected at seven sites in the equatorial Atlantic between 24°W and 33°W, 2°N and 1°20?S. The use of three identical temperature microstructure profiles gives insight ...

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: Temperature ramps or microfronts are coherent tilted structures in the oceanic and atmospheric boundary layers at which there are small, but detectable, changes in mean temperature. Their presence contributes to a nonzero ...

Abstract: Observations are described in an experiment undertaken to determine the response of a stratified inlet to changing conditions of wind, tide and runoff. Time series of conductivity profiles taken in Alberni Inlet, British ...

Abstract: Observations of turbulent energy dissipation rate ? in the deep surface mixed layer at a mid-Sargasso site are presented: two occupations of this site include a large range of local meteorological forcing. Two frontal ...

Abstract: Turbulence characteristics in the coastal ocean bottom boundary layer are measured using a submersible Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV) system with a sample area of 20 ? 20 cm2. Measurements are performed in the New York ...

Abstract: Turbulence measurements from the central equatorial Pacific in February 1982 have been analyzed and compared to synoptic CTD and current velocity profiles and current meter data. These suggest considerably more time (if ...

Abstract: High-resolution velocity shear, CTD, and microstructure measurements were made simultaneously from the research submarine Dolphin in Monterey Bay in October 1984. During three consecutive dives, the Dolphin cycled between ...