Abstract
Author Posting. © The Oceanography Society, 2017. This article is posted here by permission of The Oceanography Society for personal use, not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in Oceanography 30, no. 2 (2017): 116–125, doi:10.5670/oceanog.2017.231.
Highlights
Direct in situ measurements of ocean turbulence have more than a 50-year history, starting with the seminal work of Grant et al (1962)
We discuss the case of ocean microstructure sensing, which provides the basis for direct measurement of small-scale turbulence processes that lead to mixing and buoyancy flux
In the North Atlantic, dissipation rate measurements in these layers revealed unexpected turbulent mixing during times of peak warming, when enhanced stratification in a thin layer led to an internal wave mode that received energy from the deeper internal wave field of the thermocline
Summary
Measurements of Near-Surface Turbulence and Mixing from Autonomous Ocean Gliders. A Slocum glider with a Microrider sensing module deployed in Sodwana Bay by the authors, for use in a collaborative study with researchers (seen swimming) at the University of KwaZulu-Natal.
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