Observing the full ocean volume using Deep Argo floats

NV Zilberman, V Thierry, B King, M Alford… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
The ocean is the main heat reservoir in Earth's climate system, absorbing most of the top-of-
the-atmosphere excess radiation. As the climate warms, anomalously warm and fresh ocean …

Turbulent diapycnal fluxes as a pilot Essential Ocean Variable

A Le Boyer, N Couto, MH Alford, HF Drake… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
We contend that ocean turbulent fluxes should be included in the list of Essential Ocean
Variables (EOVs) created by the Global Ocean Observing System. This list aims to identify …

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 …

A Turbulence Survey in the Gulf of Naples, Mediterranean Sea, during the Seasonal Destratification

F Kokoszka, F Conversano, D Iudicone… - Journal of Marine …, 2023 - mdpi.com
The seasonality of the vertical mixing at coastal sites is not well characterized yet. Here, a
time series of the dissipation rate of turbulent kinetic energy (ε) was obtained from weekly …

ATOMIX benchmark datasets for dissipation rate measurements using shear probes

I Fer, M Dengler, P Holtermann, A Le Boyer, R Lueck - Scientific Data, 2024 - nature.com
Turbulent mixing in the ocean, lakes and reservoirs facilitates the transport of momentum,
heat, nutrients, and other passive tracers. Turbulent fluxes are proportional to the rate of …

The multi-scale layering-structure of thermal microscale profiles

A Folkard - Water, 2021 - mdpi.com
Thermal microstructure profiling is an established technique for investigating turbulent
mixing and stratification in lakes and oceans. However, it provides only quasi-instantaneous …

[PDF][PDF] Observing the full ocean volume using Deep Argo floats

NV Zilberman, V Thierry, B King, M Alford… - … IN MARINE SCIENCE, 2023 - ricerca.ogs.it
Earth's Energy Imbalance (EEI), the rate of net solar energy absorbed by the Earth, shows
an increased trend in the past two decades at least partly as a result of increased …

Pathways to Turbulent Dissipation in a Submarine Canyon

C Bellerjeau, MH Alford, A Le Boyer, G Dematteis… - Authorea …, 2024 - authorea.com
Velocity and turbulence observations are used to estimate the forward cascade of kinetic
energy from the internal tide to dissipation within a steep canyon. The semidiurnal tide is the …

[PDF][PDF] The Epsilometer on Argo Floats

C Arnaud Le Boyer, MH Alford, N Couto… - MICROSTRUCTURE … - digital.lib.washington.edu
Our group has integrated the epsilometer, a microstructure sensor, onto an APEX Argo float
as a part of Argo-mix, a new branch of the Argo mission. Argo floats are designed to be …