Article: Upper-ocean turbulence during a westerly wind bursts: A comparison of large-eddy simulation results and microstructure measurements

Article: Similarity of scalar fields in the convective boundary layer
Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences;  July 1, 1999 ;     700+ words ......shearless, convective mixed layer. The concept of...portion of the boundary layer also has a self-simil...moderately stable boundary layer was found by Nieuwstadt...stably stratified boundary layer (e.g., Sorbjan...the convective mixed layer, verify the ...

Article: The NRL Layered Global Ocean Model (NLOM) with an Embedded Mixed Layer Submodel: Formulation and Tuning*
Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology;  November 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ...ABSTRACT A bulk-type (modified Kraus-Turner) mixed layer model that is embedded within the Naval...currents, the temperature just below the mixed layer, and an estimate of the stable mixed layer depth. Coupling is achieved by explicitly...

Article: Spatial and structural variation of the atmospheric boundary layer during summer in Israel--profiler and rawinsonde measurements
Journal of Applied Meteorology;  April 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ......structure of the atmospheric boundary layer (ABL) in Israel along the coastal...spatial variation of the turbulent mixed layer and the stable layer capping...structure of the atmospheric boundary layer (ABL) and its spatial variation...

Article: The detection of mixed layer depth and entrainment zone thickness from lidar back scatter profiles
Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology;  July 1, 1999 ;     700+ words ......this case, the mixed layer depth (MLD) is...largest scales of boundary layer turbulence (Stull...The detection of mixed layer structures from...inspection to yield boundary layer parameters such...automated detection of boundary layer structures, ...

Article: Large Eddy Simulation of the Ocean Mixed Layer: The Effects of Wave Breaking and Langmuir Circulation
Journal of Physical Oceanography;  April 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ......upper-ocean mixed layer becomes dominated...atmospheric boundary layer where it is...and the ocean mixed layer model also reveals...of the ocean mixed layer. 1. Introduction...of the ocean mixed layer in contrast to the atmospheric boundary ...

Article: A case study of the morning evolution of the convective boundary layer depth
Journal of Applied Meteorology;  October 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ......of the importance of the convective boundary layer depth (CBLD) in determining pollutant...morning evolution of the convective boundary layer was carried out at the Central Nuclear...Introduction Knowledge of the planetary boundary layer (PBL) depth and its evolution is of...the ...

Article: Parameterization of Joint Frequency Distributions of Potential Temperature and Water Vapor Mixing Ratio in the Daytime Convective Boundary Layer
Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences;  April 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ......within the convective boundary layer were measured during a new field experiment named Boundary Layer Experiment 1996 (BLX96...function of both height and boundary layer dynamics. These distributions...properties of the surface, mixed layer, and entrainment ...

Article: Convectively Driven Mixing in the Bottom Boundary Layer
Journal of Physical Oceanography;  October 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ......through the bottom boundary layer over a sloping...where D is the mixed layer height). The...in the bottom mixed layer is estimated...which the bottom boundary layer was unstably...in the bottom boundary layer decreases up...of the bottom boundary ...

Article: Variability of the Oceanic Mixed Layer, 1960-2004
Journal of Climate;  March 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ......monthly uniformly gridded analysis of mixed layer properties based on the World Ocean...examine interannual and longer changes in mixed layer properties during the 45-yr period 1960-20...variability in the winter-spring depth of the mixed layer in the subtropics and midlatitudes...

Article: The Closure of the Ocean Mixed Layer Temperature Budget Using Level-Coordinate Model Fields
Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology;  June 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ......Entrainment is an important element of the mixed layer mass, heat, and temperature budgets...does not have an explicit prognostic mixed layer model is described. The integral elements...of the temperature difference between mixed layer water and entrained water at each horizontal...

Article: Turbulent vertical kinetic energy in the ocean mixed layer
Journal of Physical Oceanography;  December 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ......velocities in the ocean boundary layer were measured for two...vertical velocity in the boundary layer (sigma)^sup 2^^sub...physics of the oceanic boundary layer, their effects on vertical...properties in the ocean boundary layer are limited. Accordingly...models of the ...

Article: The ocean boundary layer below Hurricane Dennis
Journal of Physical Oceanography;  March 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ......properties of the ocean boundary layer beneath sustained 30...repeatedly moved through a mixed layer 30-70 m deep at average...mechanisms in the ocean boundary layer under these severe...deep water into the mixed layer (Price et al. 1994...

Article: Climatological SST and MLD Predictions from a Global Layered Ocean Model with an Embedded Mixed Layer*
Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology;  November 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ......Ocean Model (NLOM) with an embedded mixed layer submodel is used to predict the climatological...temperature (SST) and surface ocean mixed layer depth (MLD) over the global ocean. The...six dynamical layers plus the embedded mixed layer at 1/2 resolution in latitude and 0...

Article: A One-Dimensional Mixed Layer Ocean Model for Use in Three-Dimensional Climate Simulations: Control Simulation Compared to Observations
Journal of Climate;  July 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ......modified Kraus-Turner-type one-dimensional mixed layer ocean model (MLOM) for the upper ocean...effects of the seasonal variation of mixed layer depth and convective instability on...contains seasonally and spatially specified mixed layer depths. The SOM also contains a heat...