Abstract: Spectra of turbulence have been examined for both temperature gradient and velocity shear. The data for this comparison are 10?15 m segments of vertical microstructure profiles (at depths of 5?100 m) obtained during the ...

Abstract: Turbulence levels obtained during the 1978 Joint Air-Sea Interaction experiment (JASIN) have been examined from measurements of both temperature gradient and velocity shear. These measurements, obtained with the vertical ...

Abstract: Solitons have been observed and studied on the Scotian Shelf using the vertical microstructure profiler EPSONDE. During one tidal cycle a packet of solitary waves has been sampled four times as it propagated onto the shelf ...

Abstract: Temperature gradient records from vertical lowerings of an array of four thermometers are used to trace microstructure features horizontally over a distance of 46 cm. Identifiable features are found to have a slope and a ...

Abstract: A tethered free-fall microstructure glider, designed to make quasi-horizontal profiles of the ocean mixed layer, was tested at Emerald Bank on the Scotian Shelf in June 1996. The vehicle attained a 4:1 gliding ratio with ...

Abstract: Observations of turbulent energy dissipation, ?, measured during a week-long mixed-layer study on the continental shelf off Nova Scotia are presented. This time series of dissipation measurements at a fixed site and with ...