Optical measurement of salt fingers

Melvin E. Stern

doi:10.3402/tellusa.v22i1.10160

Optical measurement of salt fingers

Tellus

Volume 22 (1970): Issue 1

By: Melvin E. Stern

Open Access

|Jan 1970

Abstract

The optical distortion of a ruled vertical grating, when viewed through a layer of salt fingers, is described and discussed by a simple random walk model for a ray path. Intensity fluctuations are computed and the magnitude of the effect appears to be large enough to measure in the thin transition region separating the step-like structure of the main thermocline (Tait & Howe, 1968).

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