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Creator:: Nash, Jonathan D., Kelly, Samuel M., Shroyer, Emily L., Moum, James N., and Duda, Timothy F.
Abstract:: Packets of nonlinear internal waves (NLIWs) in a small area of the Mid-Atlantic Bight were 10 times more energetic during a local neap tide than during the preceding spring tide. This counterintuitive result cannot be explained if the waves are generated near the shelf break by the local barotropic tide...
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Creator:: Smyth, William D. and Moum, James N.
Abstract:: Kelvin-Helmholtz (KH) instability, characterized by the distinctive finite-amplitude billows it generates, is an important mechanism in the development of turbulence in the stratified interior of the ocean. In particular, it is often assumed that the onset of turbulence in internal waves begins in this way. Clear recognition of the importance...
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Creator:: Rouseff, Daniel, Tang, Dajun, Williams, Kevin L., Wang, Zhongkang, and Moum, James N.
Abstract:: Preliminary results are presented from an analysis of mid-frequency acoustic transmission data collected at range 550m during the Shallow Water 2006 Experiment. The acoustic data were collected on a vertical array immediately before, during, and after the passage of a nonlinear internal wave on 18 August, 2006. Using oceanographic data...
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Creator:: Imawaki, Shiro, Niiler, Pearn P., Gautier, Catherine H., Halpern, David, Knox, Robert A., Large, William G., Luther, Douglas S., McWilliams, James C., Moum, James N., and Paulson, Clayton A.
Abstract:: A new method is presented for estimating the vertical turbulent heat flux at the bottom of the daily mixed layer from the temperature data in the mixed layer and net solar irradiance data at the sea surface. We assume that fluctuations in the divergence of advective heat flux have longer...
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Creator:: Umlauf, Lars, Smyth, William D., and Moum, James N.
Abstract:: Turbulent bottom Ekman layers are among the most important energy conversion sites in the ocean. Their energetics are notoriously complex, in particular near sloping topography, where the feedback between cross-slope Ekman transports, buoyancy forcing, and mixing affects the energy budget in ways that are not well understood. Here, the authors...
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Creator:: Mater, Benjamin D., Venayagamoorthy, Subhas K., St Laurent, Louis, and Moum, James N.
Abstract:: Oceanic density overturns are commonly used to parameterize the dissipation rate of turbulent kinetic energy. This method assumes a linear scaling between the Thorpe length scale L[subscript]T and the Ozmidov length scale L[subscript]O. Historic evidence supporting L[subscript]T ~ L[subscript]O has been shown for relatively weak shear-driven turbulence of the thermocline;...
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Creator:: Moum, James N.
Abstract:: A low-power (<10 mW), physically small (15.6 cm long × 3.2 cm diameter), lightweight (600 g Cu; alternatively, 200 g Al), robust, and simply calibrated pitot-static tube to measure mean speed and turbulence dissipation (ε ) is described and evaluated. The measurement of speed is derived from differential pressure via...
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Creator:: Alford, Matthew H., Peacock, Thomas, MacKinnon, Jennifer A., Nash, Jonathan D., Buijsman, Maarten C., Centurioni, Luca R., Chao, Shenn-Yu, Chang, Ming-Huei, Farmer, David M., Fringer, Oliver B., Fu, Ke-Hsien, Gallacher, Patrick C., Graber, Hans C., Helfrich, Karl R., Jachec, Steven M., Jackson, Christopher R., Klymak, Jody M., Ko, Dong S., Jan, Sen, Johnston, T. M. Shaun, Legg, Sonya, Lee, I-Huan, Lien, Ren-Chieh, Mercier, Matthieu J., Moum, James N., Musgrave, Ruth, Park, Jae-Hun, Pickering, Andrew I., Pinkel, Robert, Rainville, Luc, Ramp, Steven R., Rudnick, Daniel L., Sarkar, Sutanu, Scotti, Alberto, Simmons, Harper L., St. Laurent, Louis C., Venayagamoorthy, Subhas K., Wang, Yu-Huai, Wang, Joe, Yang, Yiing J., Paluszkiewicz, Theresa, and Tang, Tswen-Yung (David)
Abstract:: Internal gravity waves, the subsurface analogue of the familiar surface gravity waves that break on beaches, are ubiquitous in the ocean. Because of their strong vertical and horizontal currents, and the turbulent mixing caused by their breaking, they affect a panoply of ocean processes, such as the supply of nutrients...
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Creator:: Moum, James N., de Szoeke, Simon P., Smyth, William D., Edson, James B., DeWitt, H. Langley, Moulin, Aurélie J., Thompson, Elizabeth J., Zappa, Christopher J., Rutledge, Steven A., Johnson, Richard H., and Fairall, Christopher W.
Abstract:: The life cycles of three Madden–Julian oscillation (MJO) events were observed over the Indian Ocean as part of the Dynamics of the MJO (DYNAMO) experiment. During November 2011 near 0°, 80°E, the site of the research vessel Roger Revelle, the authors observed intense multiscale interactions within an MJO convective envelope,...
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Creator:: Li, Yuanlong, Han, Weiqing, Shinoda, Toshiaki, Wang, Chunzai, Lien, Ren-Chieh, Moum, James N., and Wang, Jih-Wang
Abstract:: The effects of solar radiation diurnal cycle on intraseasonal mixed layer variability in the tropical Indian Ocean during boreal wintertime Madden-Julian Oscillation (MJO) events are examined using the HYbrid Coordinate Ocean Model. Two parallel experiments, the main run and the experimental run, are performed for the period of 2005–2011 with...
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