Downloadable Materials on Ocean Turbulence

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"Efficiency of shear-driven mixing forced by internal waves",
Inoue, R. and W.D. Smyth, 2007
J. Phys. Oceanogr. (submitted).
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"Direct numerical simulation of salt sheets and turbulence in a double-diffusive shear layer",
Kimura, S. and W.D. Smyth, 2007
Geophys. Res. Lett.34, L21610, doi:10.1029/2007GL031935.
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"Observational and numerical modeling methods for quantifying coastal ocean turbulence and mixing'',
Burchard, H., P.D. Craig, J.R. Gemmrich, H. van Haren, P.-P. Matheiu, H.E.M. Meier, W.A.M. Nimmo Smith, H. Prandke, T.P. Rippeth, E.D. Skyllingstad, W.D. Smyth, D.J.S. Welsh and H.W. Wijesekera 2008
Prog. Oceanogr. 76, 399-442.
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"Instabilities of a baroclinic, double diffusive frontal zone",
Smyth, W.D. 2006:
J. Phys. Oceanogr. 38 (4) 840-861.
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"Energy transport in nonlinear internal waves"
Moum, J.N., J.M. Klymak. J.D. Nash, A. Perlin and W.D. Smyth 2007 ,
J. Phys. Oceanogr. 37, 1968-1988.
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"Shear and convective turbulence in a model of thermohaline intrusions",
Mueller, R.D., W.D. Smyth, and B. Ruddick 2006:
J. Phys. Oceanogr. (in press).
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“Evolution and mixing of asymmetric Holmboe instabilities”,
Carpenter, J.R., G.A. Lawrence and W.D. Smyth 2006:
J. Fluid Mech. 582,103-182.
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"Instability and diapycnal momentum transport in a double diffusive, stratified shear layer",
Smyth, W.D. and S. Kimura, 2007
J. Phys. Oceanogr. 37 (6), 1551-1565.
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“Mixing in symmetric Holmboe waves”,
Smyth, W.D., J.R. Carpenter and G.A. Lawrence 2005:
J. Phys. Oceanogr. 37 (6) 1566-1583
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"Secondary circulations in Holmboe waves",
W.D. Smyth 2005:
Phys. Fluids 18, 064104.
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"The pressure disturbance of a nonlinear internal wave train'',
J.N. Moum and W.D. Smyth 2005
J. Fluid Mech. 558, 153-177.
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"Pleistocene forests preserved in Oregon coast sediments'',
W.D. Smyth, R.A. Hart and P.J. Reimer 2005:
EOS, Transactions. 86 (1) 2-3 (2005).
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"Differential diffusion in breaking Kelvin-Helmholtz billows."
W.D. Smyth, J.D. Nash and J.N. Moum
J. Phys. Oceanogr., 35 (6), 1004-1022 (2005).
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"Kelvin-Helmholtz billow evolution from a point source"
W.D. Smyth
Q. J. R. Met. Soc.,130, 2753-2766 (2004).
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"Secondary Kelvin-Helmholtz instability in weakly stratified, sheared flow"
W.D. Smyth
J. Fluid Mech., 497, 67-98. (2003)
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"Structure and generation of turbulence at interfaces strained by solitary waves propagating shoreward over the continental shelf '',
J.N. Moum, D.M. Farmer, W.D. Smyth, L. Armi and S. Vagle
J. Phys. Oceanogr. 33 (10) 2093-2112 (2003).
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"Turbulence and mixing in Holmboe waves"
W.D. Smyth and K.B. Winters
J. Phys. Oceanogr. 33 (4), 694-711 (2003).
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"Shear instability and gravity wave saturation in an asymmetrically stratified jet"
W.D. Smyth & J.N. Moum
Dyn. Atm. Oceans, 35 (3) 265-294 (2002)
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"Nonlocal fluxes and Stokes drift effects in the K-profile parameterization"
W.D. Smyth, E.D. Skyllingstad, G. Crawford and H. Wijesekera
Ocean Dynamics 52 (3), 104-115 (2002).
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