A mechanism of excitation of the large-scale inertial waves in a rotating inhomogeneous turbulence due to an excitation of a large-scale instability is found. This instability is caused by a combined effect of the inhomogeneity of the turbulence and the uniform mean rotation. The source of the largescale instability is the energy of the small-scale turbulence. We determined the range of paramet...

We report the effects of small-scale turbulence on the feeding rates of the marine copepod Oithona davisae. Laboratory experiments were conducted under a range of turbulence dissipation rates between 1024 and 101 cm2 s23. Net enhancements of feeding were observed only at the lowest, whereas negative net effects appeared only at the highest, turbulence intensities. These results contrast with ex...

It is most natural to assume that mysterious Small Ionized and Neutral Structures (SINS) in diffuse ISM arise from turbulence. There are two obvious problem with such an explanation, however. First of all, it is generally believed that at the small scales turbulence should be damped. Second, turbulence with Kolmogorov spectrum cannot be the responsible for the SINS. We consider, however, effect...

This study uses large-eddy simulation (LES) to investigate the characteristics of Langmuir turbulence through the turbulent kinetic energy (TKE) budget. Based on an analysis of the TKE budget a velocity scale for Langmuir turbulence is proposed. The velocity scale depends on both the friction velocity and the surface Stokes drift associated with the wave field. The scaling leads to unique profi...