Small-Scale Turbulence and Mixing in the Ocean

J.C.J. Nihoul, B.M. Jamart

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1988
• Print ISBN:
  9780444429872
• eBook ISBN:
  9780080870847
• Topic: Physical Sciences
• Subtopic: Geophysics

This volume contains the proceedings of the 19th International Liège Colloquium on Ocean Hydrodynamics, the programme of which focused on the relationships between small-scale mixing and large-scale features, transports and processes. The presentation of papers on various methods of parameterization of small-scale turbulent mixing for numerical ocean models was particularly encouraged and this resulted in more than a third of the papers presented at the Colloquium dealing in one way or another with the parameterization problems; many of these papers demonstrate the direct results of modelling. These proportions are well reflected in this volume of proceedings and thus emphasize once more the importance of small-scale turbulence research for such vital practical applications as ocean modelling and forecasting.

Table of contents

• Front Cover
• Small-Scale Turbulence and Mixing in the Ocean
• Copyright Page
• FOREWORD
• LIST OF PARTICIPANTS
• TABLE OF CONTENTS
• Chapter 1. INTRODUCTION
• Chapter 2. SMALL-SCALE TURBULENCE AND MIXING IN THE OCEAN: A GLOSSARY
• Chapter 3. THE USE OF DELIBERATELY INJECTED TRACERS FOR THE STUDY OF DIAPYCNAL MIXING IN THE OCEAN
• Chapter 4. SOME IMPLICATIONS OF OCEAN MIXING FOR OCEAN MODELLING
• Chapter 5. MERITS AND DEFECTS OF DIFFERENT APPROACHES TO MIXED LAYER MODELLING
• Chapter 6. THE INCLUSION OF A SURFACE MIXED LAYER IN A LARGE-SCALE CIRCULATION MODEL
• Chapter 7. MODELLING TURBULENCE IN SHALLOW SEA REGIONS
• Chapter 8. TURBULENT FIELDS ASSOCIATED WITH THE GENERAL CIRCULATION IN THE NORTHERN BERING SEA
• Chapter 9. EMBEDDING STRATIFICATION MODELS IN OCEAN GENERAL CIRCULATION CLIMATE MODELS
• Chapter 10. SIMULATION OF THE MIXED LAYER IN A GLOBAL OCEAN GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL
• Chapter 11. A THERMODYNAMIC MODEL OF THE GLOBAL SEA-SURFACE TEMPERATURE AND MIXED-LAYER DEPTH
• Chapter 12. COASTAL OCEAN RESPONSE TO ATMOSPHERIC FORCING
• Chapter 13. PARAMETERIZATION OF VERTICAL DIFFUSION IN A NUMERICAL MODEL OF THE BLACK SEA
• Chapter 14. LONG-TERM SIMULATIONS OF UPPER OCEAN VERTICAL MIXING USING MODELS OF DIFFERENT TYPES
• Chapter 15. SOME DYNAMICAL AND STATISTICAL PROPERTIES OF EQUATORIAL TURBULENCE
• Chapter 16. TURBULENT DISSIPATION IN THE STRAIT OF GIBRALTAR AND ASSOCIATED MIXING
• Chapter 17. MICROSTRUCTURE AND VERTICAL VELOCITY SHEAR DISTRIBUTION IN MONTEREY BAY
• Chapter 18. MEDITERRANEAN SALT LENSES
• Chapter 19. ESTIMATES OF MIXING INFERRED FROM TEMPERATURE AND VELOCITY MICROSTRUCTURE
• Chapter 20. THE MIXING OF MEDDY "SHARON"
• Chapter 21. MIXING AND LARGE-SCALE OCEAN DYNAMICS
• Chapter 22. VORTICAL MOTIONS
• Chapter 23. THE RELATION BETWEEN LAGRANGIAN AND EULERIAN SPECTRA: A CONNECTION BETWEEN LARGE-SCALE WAVES AND SMALL-SCALE TURBULENCE
• Chapter 24. EVIDENCE AND CONSEQUENCES OF FOSSIL TURBULENCE IN THE OCEAN
• Chapter 25. MEASURING TURBULENT TRANSPORTS IN STRATFIED FLOWS
• Chapetr 26. NEW APPROACH TO COX NUMBER IN QUASI-HOMOGENEOUS LAYERS
• Chapetr 27. THEORIES OF INTERNAL WAVE INTERACTION AND STABLY STRATIFIED TURBULENCE: TESTING AGAINST DIRECT NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTATION
• Chapter 28. THE INFLUENCE OF BOTTOM DISSIPATION ON WAVE GROWTH
• Chapter 29. INTERNAL TIDAL OSCILLATIONS AND WATER COLUMN INSTABILITY IN THE UPPER SLOPE REGION OF THE BAY OF BISCAY
• Chapter 30. ESTIMATES OF VERTICAL MIXING BY INTERNAL WAVES REFLECTED OFF A SLOPING BOTTOM
• Chapter 31. BENTHIC BOUNDARY LAYERS ON SLOPES
• Chapter 32. MIXING IN A THERMOHALINE STAIRCASE
• Chapter 33. MIXING IN THE THERMOHALINE STAIRCASE EAST OF BARBADOS
• Chapter 34. LAYER THICKNESSES AND EFFECTIVE DIFFUSIVITIES IN "DIFFUSIVE" THERMOHALINE CONVECTION IN THE OCEAN
• Chapter 35. EXPLAINING EFFECTIVE DIFFUSIVITIES WITHIN DIFFUSIVE OCEANIC STAIRCASES
• Chapter 36. NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS ON THERMOHALINE CONVECTIVE MOTIONS ACROSS INTERFACES OF INTRUSIONS
• Chapter 37. REYNOLDS NUMBER EFFECTS ON TURBULENCE IN THE PRESENCE OF STABLE STRATIFICATION
• Chapter 38. COMMENT ON "REYNOLDS NUMBER EFFECTS ON TURBULENCE IN THE PRESENCE OF STABLE STRATIFICATION"
• Chapter 39. REPLY
• Chapter 40. AN OVERVIEW OF THE 19TH INTERNATIONAL LIEGE COLLOQUIUM ON OCEAN HYDRODYNAMICS; "SMALL-SCALE TURBULENCE AND MIXING IN THE OCEAN"