Abstract: The analysis of turbulent mixing has historically relied upon either indirect estimates of turbulent mixing, such as the gradient Richardson number, or measurements of small-scale shear to define turbulent dissipation ...

Abstract: ith the global sea level rising, it is imperative to quantify how the dynamics of tidal estuaries and embayments will respond to increased depth and newly inundated perimeter regions. With increased depth comes a decrease ...

Abstract: urbulence observations at the shoal?channel interface in South San Francisco Bay are described and analyzed in this work. Profiles of turbulent kinetic energy (TKE) shear production and dissipation rate are estimated from ...

Abstract: n partially stratified shoal?channel estuaries, variations in bathymetry at the shoal?channel interface generate horizontal shears and density gradients, and foam lines characteristic of convergence fronts are frequently ...

Abstract: A two-week dataset from a partially and periodically stratified estuary quantifies variability in the turbulence across the tidal and spring?neap time scales. These observations have been fit with a two-parameter model of ...

Abstract: The authors present a field study of estuarine turbulence in which profiles of Reynolds stresses were directly measured using an ADCP throughout a 25-h tidal day. The dataset that is discussed quantifies turbulent mixing ...

Abstract: Scalar exchange between San Francisco Bay and the coastal ocean is examined using shipboard observations made across the Golden Gate Channel. The study consists of experiments during each of the following three ?seasons?: ...

Abstract: ross-channel transect measurements of microstructure and velocity in a well-mixed and curved tidal inlet in the German Wadden Sea show the occurrence of significant late flood stratification. This stratification is found ...

Abstract: Techniques for the accurate estimation of the dissipation rate of temperature variance ?T from temperature microstructure measurements are synthesized and evaluated. The techniques focus on the treatment of contamination ...

Abstract: esidual (subtidal) circulation profiles in estuaries with a large tidal amplitude-to-depth ratio often are quite complex and do not resemble the traditional estuarine gravitational circulation profile. This paper describes ...