INTERNAL WAVES MAY CONTRIBUTE TO OCEAN MIXING AND CLIMATE

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society;  September 1, 2008 ;     413 words ......known about how internal waves are generated...mixing of the deep ocean, but it's very...and found that internal waves generate intense...down to meet the deep ocean floor. The saltwater...continental slopes. The internal waves could also play...water up ...

Thermal fronts generated by internal waves propagating obliquely along the...

Journal of Physical Oceanography;  March 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ......Generated by Internal Waves Propagating Obliquely...associated with internal waves propagating obliquely...Interactions of internal waves and sloping boundaries...diffusion in the deep ocean (Munk 1966; Armi...reflection of internal waves and are ...

Refraction and Shoaling of Nonlinear Internal Waves at the Malin Shelf...

Journal of Physical Oceanography;  December 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ......refraction and shoaling of nonlinear internal waves observed at the Malin slope for a sequence...of refraction is small because the internal waves are high frequency, and in this case...amplitudes. The properties of simulated internal waves that arose from an idealized initial...

Evidence found for the breaking of 300 feet tall internal waves in oceans

The Hindustan Times;  January 23, 2008 ;     436 words ......have found the first evidence of giant internal waves partially breaking inside the oceans...which have very different densities - internal waves propagate deep down in the oceans where...and less dense upper waters. These internal waves, which are generated by tides, rise...

Internal waves seem to have muscle to pump up mid-lats

Sea Technology;  August 1, 2003 ;     329 words ...When internal waves up to 300 feet first form, they...entire ocean to fill with cold water. Internal waves get started either during stormy...University scientists, show that internal waves have the two trillion watts that...

Experiment compares direct and radar measurements of internal waves.

Oceanus;  March 22, 1996 ;     286 words ......September 1995 to learn how radars image internal waves. The experiment was sponsored by the...Laboratory located in Boulder, Colorado. Internal waves propagate beneath the sea surface at...or a combination of these. Resulting internal waves can produce current surges that cause...

Amplification and Suppression of Internal Waves by Tides over Variable...

Journal of Physical Oceanography;  October 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ...ABSTRACT The energy exchange between internal waves and barotropic currents over inclined...of suppression or amplification of internal waves by a current over an inclined bottom...nonhydrostatic model reproduces the packets of internal waves generated by supercritical tidal flow...

Oceanic Isopycnal Slope Spectra. Part I: Internal Waves

Journal of Physical Oceanography;  May 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ...ABSTRACT Horizontal tow measurements of internal waves are rare and have been largely supplanted...from 5 km to 0.1 m, encompassing both internal waves and turbulence. The turbulence subrange...rest of the motions are deemed to be internal waves. The remaining subrange has a slightly...

Development and Propagation Of Internal Waves in the Mona Passage

Sea Technology;  October 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ......propagation of a remarkable train of internal waves in the Mona Passage, a strait between...long beer aware of the generation of internal waves at a site in the northeastern portion...the Mona Passage, however. Nature of Internal Waves In contrast to surface ocean waves...

Efforts to understand deep-ocean mixing

Sea Technology;  April 1, 2002 ;     379 words ......topography, Sanford says. The resulting internal waves, indiscernible at the surface, travel...the ridge. The "energy flux" of such internal waves was measured directly for the first...bottom included stations where the internal waves were expected to be strong and other...

The Effect of a Bottom Shelf Front upon the Generation and Propagation of...

Journal of Physical Oceanography;  June 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ......propagation of wind-forced near-inertial internal waves in a coastal region in the presence...Ekman pumping that drives near-inertial internal waves in the frontal region. On the positive...spatial distribution of near-inertial internal waves is found to be independent of whether...

A Revolutionary Opportunity: One-of-a-Kind Deep Ocean Expeditions Company...

PR Newswire;  March 9, 2005 ;     392 words ......Academy Award winner James Cameron and Deep Ocean One CEO Aussie Mike McDowell are hosting...opportunities via a partnership with Deep Ocean One, only a select few will be taken...undiscovered species in a multiplicity of deep ocean habitats. McDowell's deep-water exploration...

Numerical experiments on the breaking of solitary internal waves over a...

Journal of Physical Oceanography;  June 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ......accepted that one of the main causes of internal waves is due to a barotropic tide interacting...but the structure of highly nonlinear internal waves and their ultimate fate remain comparatively...regions. At the same time observations of internal waves in the Andaman (Osborne and ...

Dissipative Losses in Nonlinear Internal Waves Propagating across the...

Journal of Physical Oceanography;  July 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ......viding a clear distinction from linear internal waves (Moum et al. 2007). Vertical redistribution...sink is the generation of small-scale internal waves by the wave disturbance, as has been...leading wave of a train of nonlinear internal waves over a distance of about 30 km in a...

A growth mechanism for topographic internal waves generated by an...

Journal of Physical Oceanography;  August 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ......class of topographically generated internal waves identified by Nakamura et al., which...amplification processes of topographic internal waves across a broader parameter range than...Chereskin, T. K., 1983: Generation of internal waves in Massachusetts Bay. J. Geophys. Res...