This report presents observations from a single mooring of velocity, temperature, conductivity, and pressure, made as part of the Ocean Storms experiment, conducted in the N.E. Pacific Ocean (47° 25.4' N, 139° 17.8' W) from August 1987 to June 1988. The mooring contained a total of 14 current meters, 4...
The problem of the restoration of quadratically
distorted images is considered in this investigation, based
upon the fact that images formed by partially coherent
illuminations are related quadratically to the amplitude of
the object. Two of the most important problems in image
restoration are: 1) determining the degradation
characteristics of...
In September of 1989, the site of an active seafloor methane vent was confirmed
approximately 20 km off the coast of Oregon in shelf waters 135 m deep. The location of
the vent had been described to Oregon State University oceanographers by a local
commercial fisherman. Preliminary observations in 1989...
Wind-generated inertial currents can radiate from the mixed layer as horizontally and vertically propagating new-inertial internal gravity waves. To study the timescale of the decay of mixed layer energy and the magnitude of the energy transfer to the ocean below, the authors developed a numerical, linear model on a β...
Observations of near-inertial oscillations collected during the Ocean Storms Experiment in the northeast Pacific Ocean are compared with results from a linear, numerical model on a β plane, developed by Zervakis and Levine. A slab mixed layer model, forced by the observed wind time series, is used to identify three...
During the Internal Waves on the Continental Margin (IWAVES) field experiments of 1996 and 1997 off of Mission Beach, California (32.75° N), we observed energetic, dirunal-band motions across the entire study site in water depths ranging from 15 to 500 m and spanning a cross-shore distance of 15 km. The...