Abstract: A turbulent mixing layer, presumed to be caused by strong shear due to inertial waves, was observed from the research submarine USS Dolphin. As a consequence of the mixing, a density flux was set up. Although inertial waves ...

Abstract: Turbulence in the thermocline was investigated using data observed by the submarine Dolphin. Various length scales, the Reynolds and the Froude numbers of the Dolphin data were compared to those values of a laboratory ...

Abstract: This paper reports on a direct measurement of the turbulent heat flux. The sampling was from a submarine that used a conventional airfoil probe to measure the vertical component of turbulent velocity and a thermistor probe ...

Abstract: Vertical profiles of microstructure velocity over the San Diego Trough showed enhanced levels of kinetic energy dissipation in the intrusive region between the California Undercurrent and the surface California Current. ...

Abstract: In their derivation of the lognormal probability density function for volume-averaged dissipation rates, Gurvich and Yaglom assumed explicitly that these dissipation rates are statistically homogeneous and that the averaging ...

Abstract: The dissipation rate of kinetic energy, ?, was estimated from adjacent and simultaneous measurements with a submarine and a vertical profiler. The submarine cycled up and down through the water column measuring both a ...

Abstract: A new empirical method to estimate mesoscale three-dimensional oceanic thermal structures from near-real-time satellite altimetry data is presented. The method uses a two-layer model with a novel set of empirical parameters ...

Abstract: This paper evaluates the performance of a newly developed free-falling microstructure profiler. The instrument is equipped with standard turbulence sensors for measuring turbulent velocity shear and temperature gradient, ...

Abstract: Microstructure measurements were made in the Mixed Water Region of the Oyashio/Kuroshio/Tsugaru currents system where both turbulence and double diffusion are involved in mixing. While intense turbulence is observed near ...

Abstract: This article describes an experimental method used to establish the spatial wavenumber response of in situ fluorometers. The method is applied to a fluorometer developed to measure the structure of the fluorescence field ...