Shear Profiling and Analysis in Conjunction with Direct Measurements of Dissipation and Diffusion

详细的垂直速度切变测量将在 1992年秋季和1993年春季， 大西洋示踪剂释放实验（NATRE）使用自主 一个叫笛卡尔潜水员的侧写师观察结果将是 在四个不同的地点进行， 显微组织剖析本研究的科学目的 将温跃层中的湍流混合过程与 背景内波场和相关的直接扩散系数 从示踪剂扩散到涡流扩散系数的测量结果 基于湍流耗散率的模型。

Detailed vertical velocity shear measurements will be conducted in the fall of 1992 and spring of 1993 in support of the North Atlantic Tracer Release Experiment (NATRE) using an autonomous profiler called Cartesian Diver. The observations are to be conducted at four different locations in concert with microstructure profiling. The scientific objectives of this study are to relate turbulent mixing processes in the thermocline to the background internal wave field and to relate direct diffusivity measurements obtained from tracer diffusion to eddy diffusivity models based on turbulent dissipation rates.