The Scaling and Structure of the Estuarine Bottom Boundary Layer

Journal of Physical Oceanography;  January 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ......the time variation of the bottom boundary layer height and the friction...Conditions at the top of the bottom boundary layer indicate that the dynamics...development of the estuarine bottom boundary layer are different on ebb tides...

The Impact of a Bottom Boundary Layer Scheme on the North Atlantic Ocean...

Journal of Physical Oceanography;  February 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ......models. In this paper, a bottom boundary layer scheme is introduced into...simple terrain-following bottom boundary layer incorporated into the ocean...tendencies are evaluated in the bottom boundary layer, with the velocities taken...

Dynamics of the bottom boundary layer on the northern California shelf

Journal of Physical Oceanography;  October 1, 1998 ;     700+ words ...Dynamics of the Bottom Boundary Layer on the Northern California...momentum and heat balances for the bottom boundary layer, which have resulted from recent...Recent theoretical work on the bottom boundary layer has focused on a problem in...

A turbulent bottom boundary layer code for use in numerical ocean models

Journal of Physical Oceanography;  June 1, 1999 ;     700+ words ......entrainment itself. Lack of a bottom boundary layer model in level general circulation...Semianalytical models of the bottom boundary layer in regions of outflow have...detrainment of water from the bottom boundary layer. Integration of such models...

Estuarine Boundary Layer Mixing Processes: Insights from Dye Experiments*

Journal of Physical Oceanography;  July 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ......Dye was injected in the bottom boundary layer for each of four releases...shear production in the bottom boundary layer. On flood the dye extended...buoyancy flux averaged over the bottom boundary layer is equal to 0.06N^sub...

Distribution of Energy Spectra, Reynolds Stresses, Turbulence Production,...

Journal of Physical Oceanography;  June 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ......velocimetry data obtained in the bottom boundary layer of the coastal ocean along...representation of coastal bottom boundary layer processes, either of biological...generation and transport. The bottom boundary layer is the zone where exchanges...

The vertical structure of the wave bottom boundary layer over a sloping...

Journal of Physical Oceanography;  July 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ......for the wave bottom boundary layer (WBL) over...of a wave boundary layer with a thickness...turbulent bottom boundary layer is generated...as the boundary layer growth rate, the wave bottom boundary layer (WBL) thickness...

On the Structure of Turbulence in the Bottom Boundary Layer of the Coastal...

Journal of Physical Oceanography;  January 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ......velocimetry (PIV) data from the bottom boundary layer of the coastal ocean are...structure and turbulence in the bottom boundary layer of the coastal ocean. PIV...turbulence in the coastal bottom boundary layer is anisotropic, particularly...

Linking boundary layer circulations and surface processes during FIFE 89....

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences;  April 1, 1998 ;     700+ words ......between biophysical feedback processes, boundary layer structure, and circulations in the boundary layer. The objective is to understand how...convection associated with an undisturbed boundary layer situation and rainfall occurring during...

The flatland boundary layer experiments

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society;  March 1, 1998 ;     700+ words ......article describes the 1995 and 1996 Flatland boundary layer experiments, known as Flatland95 and Flatland96...theme of characterization of the convective boundary layer, especially the boundary layer top and entrainment zone. In this article...

Boundary layer development over a tropical island during the maritime...

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences;  August 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ......December 1995) have been used to analyze boundary layer development and circulations over two...every day of the field campaign. The boundary layer depth, temperature, and circulation...measurements. On average, the island boundary layer depth reaches 1.5 km by early to ...

Formulation of turbulent fluxes in the stable boundary layer

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences;  October 15, 2003 ;     700+ words ......generalized version includes a dependence on boundary layer depth, which approaches the usual boundary layer height dependence for neutral conditions...many of the observational cases, a boundary layer did not exist in the usual sense, in...

Tide-induced sediment resuspension and the bottom boundary layer in an...

Journal of Physical Oceanography;  November 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ...ABSTRACT Sediment transport and bottom boundary layer (BBL) in an idealized estuary...coefficient C^sub d^ for a slip bottom boundary condition in order to consider...causes a "shutdown" of the boundary layer (Trowbridge and Lenz 1991...

Mesoscale fluctuations in scalars generated by boundary layer convection

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences;  March 1, 1999 ;     700+ words ......simulations of the penetrating dry convective boundary layer (microscale convection). The simulated...horizontal size being roughly 16 times the boundary layer depth. It turns out that both the turbulent...originates from a scale of the order of the boundary layer height. ...

The Boundary Layer Winds in Hurricanes Danielle (1998) and Isabel (2003)

Monthly Weather Review;  August 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ......This paper describes the boundary layer wind structure and dynamics...flow by a three-dimensional boundary layer model produced by Kepert...show that the hurricane boundary layer has a complex three-dimensional...