Observations of diapycnal upwelling within a sloping submarine canyon

BL Wynne-Cattanach, N Couto, HF Drake, R Ferrari… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
Small-scale turbulent mixing drives the upwelling of deep water masses in the abyssal
ocean as part of the global overturning circulation. However, the processes leading to …

The scale of submesoscale baroclinic instability globally

J Dong, B Fox-Kemper, H Zhang… - Journal of Physical …, 2020 - journals.ametsoc.org
The spatial scale of submesoscales is an important parameter for studies of submesoscale
dynamics and multiscale interactions. The horizontal spatial scales of baroclinic, geostrophic …

Submesoscale processes and mixing

J Gula, J Taylor, A Shcherbina, A Mahadevan - Ocean mixing, 2022 - Elsevier
In this chapter, we discuss the links between oceanic submesoscale (100 m–10 km)
processes and mixing. Submesoscale currents occur on lateral scales of 100 m–10 km in …

Application of symmetric instability parameterization in the Coastal and Regional Ocean Community Model (CROCO)

J Dong, B Fox‐Kemper, J Zhu… - Journal of Advances in …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
As one kind of submesoscale instability, symmetric instability (SI) of the ocean surface mixed
layer (SML) plays a significant role in modulating the SML energetics and material transport …

Characteristics of current‐induced harmonic tremor signals in ocean‐bottom seismometer records

D Essing, V Schlindwein… - Seismological …, 2021 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Long‐lasting harmonic tremor signals are frequently observed in spectrograms of
seismological data. Natural sources, such as volcanoes and icebergs, or artificial sources …

The evolution and arrest of a turbulent stratified oceanic bottom boundary layer over a slope: Upslope regime and PV dynamics

X Ruan, AF Thompson… - Journal of Physical …, 2021 - journals.ametsoc.org
The influence of a sloping bottom and stratification on the evolution of an oceanic bottom
boundary layer (BBL) in the presence of a mean flow is explored. As a complement to an …

Diapycnal displacement, diffusion, and distortion of tracers in the ocean

HF Drake, X Ruan, R Ferrari - Journal of Physical …, 2022 - journals.ametsoc.org
Small-scale mixing drives the diabatic upwelling that closes the abyssal ocean overturning
circulation. Indirect microstructure measurements of in situ turbulence suggest that mixing is …

Dynamics of eddying abyssal mixing layers over sloping rough topography

HF Drake, X Ruan, J Callies, K Ogden… - Journal of Physical …, 2022 - journals.ametsoc.org
The abyssal overturning circulation is thought to be primarily driven by small-scale turbulent
mixing. Diagnosed water-mass transformations are dominated by rough topography …

The Brazil Basin Tracer Release Experiment: Observations

JR Ledwell - Journal of Physical Oceanography, 2024 - journals.ametsoc.org
Lightening of bottom water is required to close the abyssal overturning circulation, believed
to play an important role in the climate system. A tracer release experiment and turbulence …

Circulation driven by multihump turbulent mixing over a seamount in the South China Sea

R Ye, X Shang, W Zhao, C Zhou, Q Yang… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Turbulent mixing above rough topography is crucial for the vertical motions of deep water
and the closure of the meridional overturning circulation. Related to prominent topographic …