Statistics of bubble plumes generated by breaking surface waves

M Derakhti, J Thomson, C Bassett… - Journal of …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
We examine the dependence of the penetration depth and fractional surface area (eg,
whitecap coverage) of bubble plumes generated by breaking surface waves on various wind …

AUV Observations of Langmuir Turbulence in a Stratified Shelf Sea

AW Fisher, NJ Nidzieko - Journal of Physical Oceanography, 2024 - journals.ametsoc.org
Measurements collected by a REMUS 600 AUV off the coast of southern California
demonstrate large-scale coherent wave-driven vortices, consistent with Langmuir turbulence …

Aggregation of zooplankton in a Stommel Retention Zone in a laboratory model of Langmuir circulation

S Gurung, KT Du Clos, A Aldaddi… - Limnology and …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Langmuir circulation is a common form of surface turbulence comprising a series of
counterrotating horizontal vortex pairs. Upwellings and downwellings in Langmuir …

An experimental Stommel Retention Zone facility with an application to oil droplet dispersion

S Gurung, CA Smith, S Zeidi… - Limnology and …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Stommel Retention Zones (SRZs) associated with wind‐driven Langmuir circulation
(LC) facilitate the subsurface retention of particles and thus affect processes such as oil spill …

Moored turbulence measurements using pulse-coherent Doppler sonar

SF Zippel, JT Farrar, CJ Zappa, U Miller… - … of Atmospheric and …, 2021 - journals.ametsoc.org
Upper-ocean turbulence is central to the exchanges of heat, momentum, and gases across
the air–sea interface and therefore plays a large role in weather and climate. Current …

[HTML][HTML] Impact of acoustic Doppler current profiler (ADCP) motion on structure function estimates of turbulent kinetic energy dissipation rate

BD Scannell, YD Lenn, TP Rippeth - Ocean Science, 2022 - os.copernicus.org
Turbulent mixing is a key process in the transport of heat, salt, and nutrients in the marine
environment, with fluxes commonly derived directly from estimates of the turbulent kinetic …

Current shear and turbulence during a near-inertial wave

J Röhrs, T Halsne, G Sutherland… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Surface currents and turbulent mixing were observed during a near-inertial wave (NIW)
using an accousting doppler current profiler (ADCP) and satellite-tracked drifters. Drifter …

Horizontal transport of buoyant material by turbulent jets in the upper ocean

T Kukulka - Journal of Physical Oceanography, 2020 - journals.ametsoc.org
Currents in the ocean surface boundary layer (OSBL) determine the horizontal transport of
submerged buoyant material, such as pollutants, plankton, and bubbles. Commonly, the …

Estimating turbulent kinetic energy dissipation rate using microstructure data from the ship-towed Surface Salinity Profiler

S Iyer, K Drushka, L Rainville - Journal of Atmospheric and …, 2021 - journals.ametsoc.org
As part of the second Salinity Processes in the Upper Ocean Regional Study (SPURS-2), the
ship-towed Surface Salinity Profiler (SSP) was used to measure near-surface turbulence …

Validation of High-resolution ADCP Measurements of TKE Dissipation Influenced by Waves

E Marchetti, T Culverhouse, T Comerford… - 2024 IEEE/OES …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This study evaluates the capability of the new Origin 600 (Sonardyne) high-resolution five-
beam Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (ADCP) to measure turbulence in shallow coastal …