Global energy spectrum of the general oceanic circulation

BA Storer, M Buzzicotti, H Khatri, SM Griffies… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Advent of satellite altimetry brought into focus the pervasiveness of mesoscale eddies O
(100) km in size, which are the ocean's analogue of weather systems and are often regarded …

Scale of oceanic eddy killing by wind from global satellite observations

S Rai, M Hecht, M Maltrud, H Aluie - Science Advances, 2021 - science.org
Wind is the primary driver of the oceanic general circulation, yet the length scales at which
this energy transfer occurs are unknown. Using satellite data and a recent method to …

Global cascade of kinetic energy in the ocean and the atmospheric imprint

BA Storer, M Buzzicotti, H Khatri, SM Griffies… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
Here, we present an estimate for the ocean's global scale transfer of kinetic energy (KE),
across scales from 10 to 40,000 km. Oceanic KE transfer between gyre scales and …

Eddy activity in the Arctic Ocean projected to surge in a warming world

X Li, Q Wang, S Danilov, N Koldunov, C Liu… - Nature Climate …, 2024 - nature.com
Ocean eddies play a critical role in climate and marine life. In the rapidly warming Arctic, little
is known about how ocean eddy activity will change because existing climate models cannot …

Diffusion‐based smoothers for spatial filtering of gridded geophysical data

I Grooms, N Loose, R Abernathey… - Journal of Advances …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
We describe a new way to apply a spatial filter to gridded data from models or observations,
focusing on low‐pass filters. The new method is analogous to smoothing via diffusion, and …

Measuring scale-dependent shape anisotropy by coarse-graining: Application to inhomogeneous Rayleigh-Taylor turbulence

D Zhao, H Aluie - Physical Review Fluids, 2023 - APS
We generalize the “filtering spectrum” to probe scales along different directions by spatial
coarse-graining. This multidimensional filtering spectrum quantifies the spectral content of …

The effect of sub-filter scale dynamics in large eddy simulation of turbulence

N Chang, Z Yuan, J Wang - Physics of Fluids, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
We study the effect of sub-filter scale (SFS) dynamics on the accuracy of direct
deconvolution models (DDM) in large eddy simulation of isotropic turbulence at different …

Evidence of dual energy transfer driven by magnetic reconnection at subion scales

R Foldes, SS Cerri, R Marino, E Camporeale - Physical Review E, 2024 - APS
The properties of energy transfer in the kinetic range of plasma turbulence have
fundamental implications on the turbulent heating of space and astrophysical plasmas. It …

Seasonality of the mesoscale inverse cascade as inferred from global scale-dependent eddy energy observations

JM Steinberg, ST Cole, K Drushka… - Journal of Physical …, 2022 - journals.ametsoc.org
Oceanic mesoscale motions including eddies, meanders, fronts, and filaments comprise a
dominant fraction of oceanic kinetic energy and contribute to the redistribution of tracers in …

[HTML][HTML] Basin-Scale to Submesoscale Variability of the East Mediterranean Sea Upper Circulation

A Solodoch, R Barkan, V Verma… - Journal of Physical …, 2023 - journals.ametsoc.org
Abstract The East Mediterranean Sea (EMS) circulation has previously been characterized
as dominated by gyres, mesoscale eddies, and disjoint boundary currents. We develop …