Time series of maps of monthly tropical Pacific dynamic topography
anomalies from 1979 through 1985 were constructed by means of assimilation of tide
gauge and expendable bathythermograph (XBT) data into a linear model driven by
observed winds. Estimates of error statistics were calculated and compared to actual
differences between hindcasts...
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 -...