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RISThe Underway Conductivity–Temperature–Depth Instrument
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: The development of the Underway Conductivity?Temperature?Depth (UCTD) instrument is motivated by the desire for inexpensive profiles of temperature and salinity from underway vessels, including volunteer observing ships ...
Observations of the Transition Layer
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: The transition layer is the poorly understood interface between the stratified, weakly turbulent interior and the strongly turbulent surface mixed layer. The transition layer displays elevated thermohaline variance compared ...
Observations of Superinertial and Near-Inertial Wind-driven Flow
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: The superinertial and near-inertial wind-driven flow in the western North Atlantic is examined using data from two recent experiments. The Frontal Air?Sea Interaction Experiment (FASINEX) took place at 27°N, 70°W during ...
Mindanao Current and Undercurrent: Thermohaline Structure and Transport from Repeat Glider Observations
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: AbstractAutonomous underwater Spray gliders made repeat transects of the Mindanao Current (MC), a low-latitude western boundary current in the western tropical North Pacific Ocean, from September 2009 to October 2013. In ...
The Upper-Ocean Response to Surface Heating
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: Moored observations of atmospheric variables and upper-ocean temperatures from the Long-Term Upper-Ocean Study (LOTUS) and the Frontal Air-Sea Interaction Experiment (FASINEX) are used to examine the upper-ocean response ...
Frontogenesis in Mixed Layers
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: A unified theory of frontogenesis in mixed layers is proposed. Analytical solutions of the nonlinear mass and density balances in a mixed layer are found in the Lagrangian frame for a wide class of entrainment parameterizations. ...
Inferences and Observations of Turbulent Dissipation and Mixing in the Upper Ocean at the Hawaiian Ridge
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: The Hawaiian Ridge is one of the most energetic generators of internal tides in the pelagic ocean. The density and current structure of the upper ocean at the Hawaiian Ridge were observed using SeaSoar and Doppler sonar ...
Drift Characteristics of Sea-Bird Dissolved Oxygen Optode Sensors
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Ice-Draft Profiling from Bottom-Mounted ADCP Data
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: The feasibility of ice-draft profiling using an upward-looking bottom-mounted acoustic Doppler current profiler (ADCP) is demonstrated. Ice draft is determined as the difference between the instrument depth, derived from ...
Potential Vorticity Structure in the North Atlantic Western Boundary Current from Underwater Glider Observations
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: otential vorticity structure in two segments of the North Atlantic?s western boundary current is examined using concurrent, high-resolution measurements of hydrography and velocity from gliders. Spray gliders occupied 40 ...