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Small-Scale Mixing

posted Jul 6, 2011 1:29 PM by John Mickett   [ updated Dec 14, 2011 1:02 PM by WaveChasers APL ]
Ocean flows are spatially complex and rapidly evolving. Measurements resolve a combination of the two dimensions (space and time) with varying degrees of success: moorings (excellent temporal coverage, poor spatial coverage), shipboard surveys (good spatial coverage at the cost of synopticity) and single-point profiles (good vertical resolution but poor temporal and horizontal coverage). I am interested in developing better observational techniques for simultaneously resolving their spatial and temporal resolution.