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Creator:: Levine, Murray D.
Abstract:: The Garrett–Munk (GM) spectrum continues to be a useful description of the oceanic internal wave field. However, there are several inconsistencies and ambiguities that make it difficult to use in comparing internal wave fields at different latitudes, stratifications, and water depths. A modified spectral formulation is presented that treats three...
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Full Text:: removes the f dependence in the spectral level, it is no longer consistent to maintain that the integral

Creator:: Thomson, Jim, Schwendeman, Michael S., Zippel, Seth F., Moghimi, Saeed, Gemmrich, Johannes, and Rogers, W. Erick
Abstract:: Observations of winds, waves, and turbulence at the ocean surface are compared with several analytic formulations and a numerical model for the input of turbulent kinetic energy by wave breaking and the subsequent dissipation. The observations are generally consistent with all of the formulations, although some differences are notable at...
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Full Text:: almost no variation as a function of wind speed above 5m s21. The background values are in the range of

Creator:: Stanton, Basil, Roemmich, Dean, and Kosro, Michael
Abstract:: No abstract available.
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Full Text:: , 706–720. WOCE, 1998: WOCE Global Data. Version 1.0. World Ocean Cir- culation Experiment Report No

Creator:: Waterhouse, Amy F., MacKinnon, Jennifer A., Nash, Jonathan D., Alford, Matthew H., Kunze, Eric, Simmons, Harper L., Polzin, Kurt L., St. Laurent, Louis C., Sun, Oliver M., Pinkel, Robert, Talley, Lynne D., Whalen, Caitlin B., Huussen, Tycho N., Carter, Glenn S., Fer, Ilker, Waterman, Stephanie, Naveira Garabato, Alberto C., Sanford, Thomas B., and Lee, Craig M.
Abstract:: The authors present inferences of diapycnal diffusivity from a compilation of over 5200 microstructure profiles. As microstructure observations are sparse, these are supplemented with indirect measurements of mixing obtained from (i) Thorpe-scale overturns from moored profilers, a finescale parameterization applied to (ii) shipboard observations of upper-ocean shear, (iii) strain as...
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Full Text:: rate. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 44(7), 1854-1872. doi:10.1175/JPO-D-13-0104.1 10.1175/JPO-D

Creator:: Gargett, Ann E. and Moum, J. N.
Abstract:: The authors report direct measurements of density flux at a single depth in a turbulent tidal flow, made by towing a CTD beside the vertical beam of a modified acoustic Doppler current profiler. The direct flux estimates are compared with indirect estimates of density flux based on simultaneous microscale profiler...
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Creator:: Kirincich, Anthony R., Lentz, Steven J., and Barth, John A.
Abstract:: Recent work by S. Lentz et al. documents offshore transport in the inner shelf due to a wave-driven return flow associated with the Hasselmann wave stress (the Stokes–Coriolis force). This analysis is extended using observations from the central Oregon coast to identify the wave-driven return flow present and quantify the...
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Full Text:: Doppler current profiler (ADCP) measurements at six stations, each in water depths of 13–15 m, observed

Creator:: Lee, Craig M., Sanford, Thomas B., Kunze, Eric, Nash, Jonathan D., Merrifield, Mark A., and Holloway, Peter E.
Abstract:: Full-depth velocity and density profiles taken along the 3000-m isobath characterize the semidiurnal internal tide and bottom-intensified turbulence along the Hawaiian Ridge. Observations reveal baroclinic energy fluxes of 21 ± 5 kW m⁻¹ radiating from French Frigate Shoals, 17 ± 2.5 kW m⁻¹ from Kauai Channel west of Oahu, and...
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Full Text:: from French Frigate Shoals, 17 � 2.5 kW m�1 from Kauai Channel west of Oahu, and 13 � 3.5 kW m�1 from

Creator:: de Szoeke, Roland A. and Chelton, Dudley B.
Abstract:: A mechanism by which long planetary waves in the ocean may propagate significantly faster than the classical long baroclinic Rossby waves is investigated. The mechanism depends on the poleward thickening of intermediate density layers and the concomitant thinning of near-surface and deep layers. These features of the mass distribution are...
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Full Text:: received 13 November 1997, in final form 20 April 1998) ABSTRACT A mechanism by which long planetary

Creator:: Mazzini, Piero L. F., Barth, John A., Shearman, R. Kipp, and Erofeev, A.
Abstract:: During fall/winter off the Oregon coast, oceanographic surveys are relatively scarce because of rough weather conditions. This challenge has been overcome by the use of autonomous underwater gliders deployed along the Newport hydrographic line (NH-Line) nearly continuously since 2006. The discharge from the coastal rivers between northern California and the...
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Full Text:: %), 26% (618.6%), and 13% (611.7%) of the alongshore transports, respectively. The OCC average velocities

Creator:: Perez, Renellys C., Chelton, Dudley B., and Miller, Robert N.
Abstract:: The latitudinal structure of annual equatorial Rossby waves in the tropical Pacific Ocean based on sea surface height (SSH) and thermocline depth observations is equatorially asymmetric, which differs from the structure of the linear waves of classical theory that are often presumed to dominate the variability. The nature of this...
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Full Text:: (5.2°S) and westward phase speeds of approximately 53 � 13 cm s�1 along both latitudes. Simulations

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