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 …

Closing the loops on Southern Ocean dynamics: From the circumpolar current to ice shelves and from bottom mixing to surface waves

LG Bennetts, CJ Shakespeare… - Reviews of …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
A holistic review is given of the Southern Ocean dynamic system, in the context of the crucial
role it plays in the global climate and the profound changes it is experiencing. The review …

The GM+ E closure: A framework for coupling backscatter with the Gent and McWilliams parameterization

SD Bachman - Ocean Modelling, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract The Gent and McWilliams (1990, GM) tracer transport scheme has long been a
cornerstone of global-scale ocean modeling, and is well-known for its ability to mimic the …

Seasonal modulation of submesoscale kinetic energy in the upper ocean of the northeastern South China Sea

J Zhang, Z Zhang, B Qiu, X Zhang… - Journal of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Although submesoscale processes are revealed to have a strong seasonality in many
regions of global ocean, their seasonal modulation in the northeastern South China Sea …

The contribution of submesoscale over mesoscale eddy iron transport in the open Southern Ocean

T Uchida, D Balwada, R Abernathey… - Journal of Advances …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Biological productivity in the Southern Ocean is limited by iron availability. Previous studies
of iron supply have focused on mixed‐layer entrainment and diapycnal fluxes. However, the …

Stimulated generation: Extraction of energy from balanced flow by near-inertial waves

CB Rocha, GL Wagner, WR Young - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2018 - cambridge.org
We study stimulated generation–the transfer of energy from balanced flows to existing
internal waves–using an asymptotic model that couples barotropic quasi-geostrophic flow …

Surface kinetic energy distributions in the global oceans from a high‐resolution numerical model and surface drifter observations

X Yu, AL Ponte, S Elipot, D Menemenlis… - Geophysical …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The surface kinetic energy of a 1/48° global ocean simulation and its distribution as a
function of frequency and location are compared with the one estimated from 15,329 …

[HTML][HTML] Spatiotemporal characteristics of the near-surface turbulent cascade at the submesoscale in the Drake Passage

PF Tedesco, LE Baker… - Journal of Physical …, 2024 - journals.ametsoc.org
Submesoscale currents and internal gravity waves achieve an intense turbulent cascade
near the ocean surface [depth of 0–O (100) m], which is thought to give rise to significant …

On dynamical decomposition of multiscale oceanic motions

C Wang, Z Liu, H Lin - Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The ocean hosts a variety of fluid motions characterized by contrasting dynamical regimes
and spatiotemporal scales. A practical decomposition of multiscale motions in realistic …

A deep learning approach to extract internal tides scattered by geostrophic turbulence

H Wang, N Grisouard, H Salehipour… - Geophysical …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Extraction of internal tidal (IT) signals is central to the interpretation of Sea Surface Height
(SSH) data. The increased spatial resolution of future wide‐swath satellite missions poses a …