A month of microstructure measurements in the Southern California Bight allowed to confirm the hypothesis that in ocean pycnocline, below the surface mixed layer, the probability distribution of turbulent kinetic energy dissipation rate epsilon averaged over equal time segments (2 s with 512-Hz sampling rate, corresponding to about 1.4-m vertical averaging) follows the Burr distribution suggested by Lozovatsky, Fernando, et al. (2017, ). The bin-median estimates of epsilon was well correlated with the medians of the Burr model. The parameters of the Burr distribution varied in time, but no relationship was found between these variations and the changes in wind patterns and phases of barotropic tide. In the range 10(-9)similar to<10(-8) W/kg, the dissipation rate could be related to internal wave activity in the region.

Probability Distribution of Turbulent Kinetic Energy Dissipation Rate in Stratified Turbulence: Microstructure Measurements in the Southern California Bight

Pirro A.;
2019-01-01

Abstract

A month of microstructure measurements in the Southern California Bight allowed to confirm the hypothesis that in ocean pycnocline, below the surface mixed layer, the probability distribution of turbulent kinetic energy dissipation rate epsilon averaged over equal time segments (2 s with 512-Hz sampling rate, corresponding to about 1.4-m vertical averaging) follows the Burr distribution suggested by Lozovatsky, Fernando, et al. (2017, ). The bin-median estimates of epsilon was well correlated with the medians of the Burr model. The parameters of the Burr distribution varied in time, but no relationship was found between these variations and the changes in wind patterns and phases of barotropic tide. In the range 10(-9)similar to<10(-8) W/kg, the dissipation rate could be related to internal wave activity in the region.
2019
turbulence
kinetic energy dissipation rate
Burr probability distribution
internal waves
Southern California Bight
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