An Introduction to Ocean Turbulence

Abstract

In an address to the British Association for the Advancement of Science in 1932, Sir Horace Lamb commented, “I am an old man now, and when I die and go to heaven there are two matters on which I hope for enlightenment. One is quantum electrodynamics, and the other is the turbulent motion of fluids. And about the former I am rather optimistic.” Over the past century, understanding turbulent mixing in the ocean has been one of the most interesting and challenging problems of physical oceanography.