Spectral estimates of dissipation rate within and near the surf zone

Journal of Physical Oceanography;  May 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ......used to examine changes in turbulent dissipation rate with location relative to the breakpoint...turbulence from wave orbital currents, dissipation rate is derived using the inertial subrange...arbitrary water depth. The resulting dissipation rate is compared with that obtained by...

Surface Layer Turbulence Measurements during a Frontal Passage

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences;  July 15, 2004 ;     700+ words ......dissipative range of turbulence. Dissipation rate [epsilon] is calculated with...a historical expression for dissipation rate as a function of ASL stability. The magnitude of the dissipation rate increases by an order of magnitude...

Remote measurement of turbulent wind spectra by heterodyne Doppler lidar...

Journal of Applied Meteorology;  December 1, 2000 ;     700+ words ......which can be characterized by the dissipation rate and the K-spectral peak (or outer...1989) report an experiment where the dissipation rate of the turbulent kinetic energy (TKE...paper, the concept of estimating the dissipation rate of TKE from wind spectra is introduced...

Temperature Microstructure beneath Surface Gravity Waves

Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology;  November 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ......subrange-derived turbulent energy dissipation rate ε^sub i^ compares well with the...will be a lower bound. The highest dissipation rate estimates were in the uppermost data...structure-function-derived energy dissipation rate avoids this transformation. However...

The connection between bubble size spectra and energy dissipation rates in...

Journal of Physical Oceanography;  September 1, 2000 ;     700+ words ......breaking waves, implies an energy dissipation rate. One dataset from the surf zone gives a dissipation rate of the order of 0.1 W kg-', but...however, predict that for a constant dissipation rate there is a rapid accumulation of...

Estimation of the Turbulent Fraction in the Free Atmosphere from MST Radar...

Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology;  September 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ......width σ^sup 2^ is related to the dissipation rate of kinetic energy ε^sub k^. Second...or C^sup 2^^sub n^, relates to the dissipation rate of available potential energy ε...the turbulent kinetic energy (TKE) dissipation rate ε^sub k^ (Sato and Woodman 1982...

Simulating the wave-enhanced layer under breaking surface waves with...

Journal of Physical Oceanography;  November 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ......suggested by Craig into the dissipation rate equation and solve for the turbulent Schmidt number of the dissipation rate equation, which may be formulated...It is shown how near-surface dissipation rate measurements under breaking...

PIV Measurements in the Atmospheric Boundary Layer within and above a...

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences;  August 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ......correlation between magnitudes of dissipation rate and vorticity. The dissipation rates...are the largest contributors to the dissipation rate. The production rate inherently increases...energy flux is only a part of the total dissipation rate in canopy flows. The results show...

Determining Thorpe Scales from Ship-Lowered CTD Density Profiles

Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology;  September 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ......interior if used routinely to calculate Thorpe scales, that is, estimates of the scales...methods for calculating reliable Thorpe scales from density profiles taken with...measurements of turbulent kinetic energy dissipation rate ε is to predict the vertical...1961) among ...

Measurement of Turbulent Kinetic Energy Dissipation Rate with a Lagrangian...

Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology;  July 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ......neutrally buoyant float to estimate the dissipation rate of turbulent kinetic energy ε...high frequencies. Estimates of the dissipation rate of turbulent kinetic energy using...subrange. The turbulent kinetic energy dissipation rate ε^sub ADV^ was computed from...

Revised estimates of the effects of turbulence on fertilization in the...

The Biological Bulletin;  December 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ......conditions was made via the turbulent dissipation rate [epsilon](measured in W/[m.sup.3...rate of about 600 W/[m.sup.3]. This dissipation rate is greatly in excess of rates measured...and is comparable to the predicted dissipation rate for 1-m-high waves on the steeper...

On Turbulence and Mixing in the Free Atmosphere Inferred from...

Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology;  June 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ......direct measurements of the turbulent dissipation rate by in situ probes are very scarce...and spatial variability in the eddy dissipation rate aloft, precluding the use of arbitrary...the turbulence kinetic energy (TKE) dissipation rate requires auxiliary data in the form...

Turbulent kinetic energy and its dissipation rate in the equatorial mixed...

Journal of Physical Oceanography;  September 1, 1999 ;     700+ words ......characteristics such as the TKE and the dissipation rate in the upper layers of the equatorial...variability was found in the turbulent dissipation rate in the upper layers of the equatorial...1989). The diurnal modulation of the dissipation rate (by a factor of 2-3) in the ...

Collision Rates of Cloud Droplets in Turbulent Flow

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences;  July 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ......have been found to depend on the eddy dissipation rate of turbulent kinetic energy. The radial...concentration of droplets, increases with eddy dissipation rate. When droplets are clustered there...corresponding gravitational value. For an eddy dissipation rate of about 100 cm^sup 2^ ...

Mixing on the late-summer New England shelf-solibores, shear, and...

Journal of Physical Oceanography;  July 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ......depth- and time-averaged turbulent dissipation rate was 5-50 (x 10^sup -9^ W kg^sup -1...surface and up from the bottom. The dissipation rate within the bottom boundary layer had...low-frequency internal waves. The average dissipation rate in the peak thermocline was 5 x 10...