Internal wave-driven mixing: Governing processes and consequences for climate

CB Whalen, C De Lavergne… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2020 - nature.com
Turbulent mixing from breaking oceanic internal waves drives a vertical transport of water,
heat and other climatically important tracers in the ocean, thereby playing an important role …

Internal gravity waves from atmospheric jets and fronts

R Plougonven, F Zhang - Reviews of Geophysics, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
For several decades, jets and fronts have been known from observations to be significant
sources of internal gravity waves in the atmosphere. Motivations to investigate these waves …

Ocean circulation kinetic energy: Reservoirs, sources, and sinks

R Ferrari, C Wunsch - Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics, 2009 - annualreviews.org
The ocean circulation is a cause and consequence of fluid scale interactions ranging from
millimeters to more than 10,000 km. Although the wind field produces a large energy input to …

Near-inertial internal gravity waves in the ocean

MH Alford, JA MacKinnon, HL Simmons… - Annual review of …, 2016 - annualreviews.org
We review the physics of near-inertial waves (NIWs) in the ocean and the observations,
theory, and models that have provided our present knowledge. NIWs appear nearly …

Ocean‐scale interactions from space

P Klein, G Lapeyre, L Siegelman, B Qiu… - Earth and Space …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Satellite observations of the last two decades have led to a major breakthrough emphasizing
the existence of a strongly energetic mesoscale turbulent eddy field in all the oceans. This …

[HTML][HTML] Propagation of low-mode internal waves through the ocean

L Rainville, R Pinkel - Journal of Physical Oceanography, 2006 - journals.ametsoc.org
Group speed of mode-1 M 2 internal tide over the entire world. Representative rays
emanating from known generation sites are also plotted in black. Circles indicate the daily …

Large-scale impacts of the mesoscale environment on mixing from wind-driven internal waves

CB Whalen, JA MacKinnon, LD Talley - Nature Geoscience, 2018 - nature.com
Oceanic mesoscale structures such as eddies and fronts can alter the propagation, breaking
and subsequent turbulent mixing of wind-generated internal waves. However, it has been …

What is the “near-inertial” band and why is it different from the rest of the internal wave spectrum?

C Garrett - Journal of Physical Oceanography, 2001 - journals.ametsoc.org
The “near-inertial” part of the internal wave continuum is dominant and also different from
the rest of the spectrum. A simple possible reason for the difference is that waves generated …

[HTML][HTML] Annual cycle and depth penetration of wind-generated near-inertial internal waves at Ocean Station Papa in the northeast Pacific

MH Alford, MF Cronin… - Journal of Physical …, 2012 - journals.ametsoc.org
Annual Cycle and Depth Penetration of Wind-Generated Near-Inertial Internal Waves at Ocean
Station Papa in the Northeast Pacific in: Journal of Physical Oceanography Volume 42 Issue 6 …

[HTML][HTML] Stimulated imbalance and the enhancement of eddy kinetic energy dissipation by internal waves

R Barkan, KB Winters… - Journal of Physical …, 2017 - journals.ametsoc.org
Stimulated Imbalance and the Enhancement of Eddy Kinetic Energy Dissipation by Internal
Waves in: Journal of Physical Oceanography Volume 47 Issue 1 (2017) Jump to Content …