Inhomogeneities in the refractive index induced by temperature fluctuations in turbulent flows have the effect of scattering light in near-forward angles. We have developed a method that extracts the rate of Temperature Variance Dissipation (TVD) and its spectrum from the properties of light scattering and have built an instrument -...
Observations of internal solitary waves (ISWs) and of their role in sediment
resuspension during the Coastal Mixing and Optics 1996 (CMO 96) experiment are
reported. The largest resuspension events observed in the experiment can be related to
retarded flow under the wave footprint. Two distinctly different periods of resuspension
events...
This data report includes documentation of the Coastal Mixing and Optics (CMO) Experiment inherent optical property surveys on the continental shelf and slope in the Mid-Atlantic Bight south of Cape Cod, Massachusettes, USA. The surveys were conducted aboard the R/V Endeavor during two physical oceanography cruises: E9608 (14 August to...