| contributor author | Gargett, A. E. | |
| contributor author | Hendricks, P. J. | |
| contributor author | Sanford, T. B. | |
| contributor author | Osborn, T. R. | |
| contributor author | Williams, A. J. | |
| date accessioned | 2017-06-09T14:45:58Z | |
| date available | 2017-06-09T14:45:58Z | |
| date copyright | 1981/09/01 | |
| date issued | 1981 | |
| identifier issn | 0022-3670 | |
| identifier other | ams-26275.pdf | |
| identifier uri | http://onlinelibrary.yabesh.ir/handle/yetl/4163151 | |
| description abstract | Results from three separate velocity profilers operated nearly simultaneously in the northwest Atlantic in 1975 are used to form a composite shear spectrum over vertical wavelengths from 100 m down to a few centimeters. This exercise constitutes an intercomparison of the three different measurement techniques and reveals a shear spectrum which is approximately fiat at a WKB-scaled level from k = 0.01 cpm through k0 ≈ 0.1 cpm, then falls as k?1 to a buoyancy wavenumber k0 = (N3/?)1/2 determined by the local average Väisälä frequency N and the volume-averaged dissipation rate ?. Various consequences of the observed shear spectral shape are explored. | |
| publisher | American Meteorological Society | |
| title | A Composite Spectrum of Vertical Shear in the Upper Ocean | |
| type | Journal Paper | |
| journal volume | 11 | |
| journal issue | 9 | |
| journal title | Journal of Physical Oceanography | |
| identifier doi | 10.1175/1520-0485(1981)011<1258:ACSOVS>2.0.CO;2 | |
| journal fristpage | 1258 | |
| journal lastpage | 1271 | |
| tree | Journal of Physical Oceanography:;1981:;Volume( 011 ):;issue: 009 | |
| contenttype | Fulltext | |