Understanding how turbulence leads to the enhanced irreversible transport of heat and
other scalars such as salt and pollutants in density-stratified fluids is a fundamental and …

Mixing efficiency is the ratio of the net change in potential energy to the energy expended in
producing the mixing. Parameterizations of efficiency and of related mixing coefficients are …

Climate Process Team on Internal Wave–Driven Ocean Mixing in: Bulletin of the American
Meteorological Society Volume 98 Issue 11 (2017) Jump to Content Jump to Main Navigation …

It is generally understood that small-scale mixing, such as is caused by breaking internal
waves, drives upwelling of the densest ocean waters that sink to the ocean bottom at high …

In order that it be correctly characterized, irreversible turbulent mixing in stratified fluids must
distinguish between adiabatic 'stirring'and diabatic 'mixing'. Such a distinction has been …

Turbulent mixing produced by breaking of internal waves plays an important role in setting
the patterns of downwelling and upwelling of deep dense waters and thereby helps sustain …

The Impact of a Variable Mixing Efficiency on the Abyssal Overturning in: Journal of
Physical Oceanography Volume 46 Issue 2 (2016) Jump to Content Jump to Main …

Environmental fluid mechanics underlies a wealth of natural, industrial, and, by extension,
societal challenges. In the coming decades, as we strive towards a more sustainable planet …

Diapycnal mixing shapes the distribution of climatically important tracers, such as heat and
carbon, as these are carried by dense water masses in the ocean interior. Here, we analyze …

The statistics of intermittent ocean turbulence is the key link between physical understanding
of turbulence and its global implications. The log-normal distribution is the standard but …