Contents

• List of Tables
• List of Figures
• Introduction
  • Preamble : The Ocean Mixing Problem
  • Tides
  • Wind
  • Internal Wave Dynamics at Sloping Boundaries
  • Boundary Mixing
  • HOME Experiment
  • Thesis Outline
  
  
• Data and Experimental Setting
  • Moorings Description
  • Topography and Stratification
  
  
• Current and Temperature Observations
  • Description of Variability
  • Tidal Variability
    • Mooring DS
    • Mooring DN
  
  
• Near-Inertial and Diurnal Variability
  • Introduction
  • Near-Inertial and Diurnal Band Temporal Modulation
  • Propagation of NIWs
  • Interaction of NIWs with the Sloping Bottom
  
  
• Estimation of Dissipation and Mixing
  • Thorpe Analysis
  • Results
  • Temperature Bias Correction
  • Temperature Error Sensitivity
  • Salinity Compensation
  • Clock Drift and Sampling Time Difference
  
  
• Mixing Events and Mechanisms
  • Mixing Events at Mooring DS
    • The Two Types of Mixing Events
    • Obliquely Propagating Internal Tides and Flow Reversal Mixing
  • Mixing Events at Mooring DN
  
  
• Discussion
  • Mixing at Mooring DS
  • Mixing at Mooring DN
  • Implications and Future Work
  
  
• Bibliography