Accession Number:

ADA556559

Title:

Using Dye to Study Lateral Mixing in the Ocean: 100 m to 1 km

Descriptive Note:

Corporate Author:

OREGON STATE UNIV CORVALLIS COLL OF OCEANIC AND ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES

Personal Author(s):

• Levine, Murray D.

Report Date:

2011-09-30

Pagination or Media Count:

6.0

Abstract:

The long-term goals of this research are to understand submesoscale processes causing horizontal dispersion of momentum and scalar quantities. We are interested in these processes in the open ocean as well as their role in mixing the coastal ocean. OBJECTIVES The specific objectives of the proposed research are to Participate with Lateral Mixing DRI investigators in planning a coordinated observational program, Conduct dye release experiments in conjunction with the observations planned by the other investigators to address the DRI hypotheses, and Analyze experimental data and report results in Lateral Mixing workshops, national scientific meetings and publications.

Descriptors:

• *OCEANS
• COASTAL REGIONS
• DOCUMENTS
• DYES
• EXPERIMENTAL DATA
• LONG RANGE(TIME)
• RELEASE
• REPORTS
• SCALAR FUNCTIONS
• WORKSHOPS

Subject Categories:

• Physical and Dynamic Oceanography

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE