Illuminating seafloor faults and ocean dynamics with dark fiber distributed acoustic sensing

NJ Lindsey, TC Dawe, JB Ajo-Franklin - Science, 2019 - science.org
Distributed fiber-optic sensing technology coupled to existing subsea cables (dark fiber)
allows observation of ocean and solid earth phenomena. We used an optical fiber from the …

Exchange of plankton, pollutants, and particles across the nearshore region

M Moulton, SH Suanda, JC Garwood… - Annual Review of …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Exchange of material across the nearshore region, extending from the shoreline to a few
kilometers offshore, determines the concentrations of pathogens and nutrients near the …

Variations in ocean mixing from seconds to years

JN Moum - Annual Review of Marine Science, 2021 - annualreviews.org
Over the past several decades, there has developed a community-wide appreciation for the
importance of mixing at the smallest scales to geophysical fluid dynamics on all scales. This …

The role of seasonal circulation in the variability of dynamic parameters of internal solitary waves in the Sulu Sea

J **e, H Du, Y Gong, J Niu, Y He, Z Chen, G Liu… - Progress in …, 2023 - Elsevier
In-situ observations of the Sulu Sea internal solitary waves (ISWs) are too limited to reveal
their variability. In this study, based on verified model reanalysis data, we study the …

Observations of shoaling nonlinear internal bores across the central California inner shelf

JM McSweeney, JA Lerczak, JA Barth… - Journal of Physical …, 2020 - journals.ametsoc.org
We present observations of shoaling nonlinear internal bores off the coast of central
California. The dataset includes 15 moorings deployed during September–October 2017 …

Observations of large-amplitude mode-2 nonlinear internal waves on the Australian North West shelf

MD Rayson, NL Jones, GN Ivey - Journal of Physical …, 2019 - journals.ametsoc.org
Large-amplitude mode-2 nonlinear internal waves were observed in 250-m-deep water on
the Australian North West shelf. Wave amplitudes were derived from temperature …

Observations of coherent transverse wakes in shoaling nonlinear internal waves

AJ Lucas, R Pinkel - Journal of Physical Oceanography, 2022 - journals.ametsoc.org
Abstract Space-and time-continuous seafloor temperature observations captured the three-
dimensional structure of shoaling nonlinear internal waves (NLIWs) off of La Jolla …

[HTML][HTML] The inner-shelf dynamics experiment

N Kumar, JA Lerczak, T Xu… - Bulletin of the …, 2021 - journals.ametsoc.org
The inner shelf, the transition zone between the surfzone and the midshelf, is a dynamically
complex region with the evolution of circulation and stratification driven by multiple physical …

Life in internal waves

JC Garwood, RC Musgrave, AJ Lucas - Oceanography, 2020 - JSTOR
Linear and nonlinear internal waves are widespread phenomena with important implications
for the ocean's ecology. Here, we review the biological impacts of non-breaking internal …

Turbulence asymmetries in bottom boundary layer velocity pulses associated with onshore-propagating nonlinear internal waves

J Becherer, JN Moum, JA Colosi… - Journal of Physical …, 2020 - journals.ametsoc.org
The inner shelf is a region inshore of that part of the shelf that roughly obeys Ekman
dynamics and offshore of the surf zone. Importantly, this is where surface and bottom …