Instabilities of internal gravity wave beams

T Dauxois, S Joubaud, P Odier… - Annual review of fluid …, 2018 - annualreviews.org
Internal gravity waves play a primary role in geophysical fluids: They contribute significantly
to mixing in the ocean, and they redistribute energy and momentum in the middle …

Recent progress in modeling imbalance in the atmosphere and ocean

BR Sutherland, U Achatz, CP Caulfield, JM Klymak - Physical Review Fluids, 2019 - APS
Imbalance refers to the departure from the large-scale primarily vortical flows in the
atmosphere and ocean whose motion is governed by a balance of Coriolis, pressure …

Internal waves across the Pacific

MH Alford, JA MacKinnon, Z Zhao… - Geophysical …, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
The long‐range propagation of the semidiurnal internal tide northward from the Hawaiian
ridge and its susceptibility to parametric subharmonic instability (PSI) at the “critical latitude,” …

[HTML][HTML] Parametric subharmonic instability of the internal tide at 29 N

JA MacKinnon, MH Alford, O Sun… - Journal of Physical …, 2013 - journals.ametsoc.org
Parametric Subharmonic Instability of the Internal Tide at 29N in: Journal of Physical
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[HTML][HTML] A mechanism for local dissipation of internal tides generated at rough topography

M Nikurashin, S Legg - Journal of Physical Oceanography, 2011 - journals.ametsoc.org
A Mechanism for Local Dissipation of Internal Tides Generated at Rough Topography in:
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A generalised-Lagrangian-mean model of the interactions between near-inertial waves and mean flow

JH Xie, J Vanneste - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2015 - cambridge.org
Wind forcing of the ocean generates a spectrum of inertia–gravity waves that is sharply
peaked near the local inertial (or Coriolis) frequency. The corresponding near-inertial waves …

A three-component model for the coupled evolution of near-inertial waves, quasi-geostrophic flow and the near-inertial second harmonic

GL Wagner, WR Young - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2016 - cambridge.org
We derive an asymptotic model that describes the nonlinear coupled evolution of (i) near-
inertial waves (NIWs),(ii) balanced quasi-geostrophic flow and (iii) near-inertial second …

[HTML][HTML] On PSI interactions in internal gravity wave fields and the decay of baroclinic tides

D Olbers, F Pollmann, C Eden - Journal of Physical …, 2020 - journals.ametsoc.org
On PSI Interactions in Internal Gravity Wave Fields and the Decay of Baroclinic Tides in: Journal
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[HTML][HTML] Space–time scales of shear in the North Pacific

MH Alford, JA MacKinnon, R Pinkel… - Journal of Physical …, 2017 - journals.ametsoc.org
Space–Time Scales of Shear in the North Pacific in: Journal of Physical Oceanography
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Observed near-inertial waves trapped in a propagating anticyclonic eddy

X Xu, W Zhao, X Huang, Q Hu, S Guan… - Journal of Physical …, 2022 - journals.ametsoc.org
Near-inertial waves (NIWs) trapped in a propagating anticyclonic eddy (AE) are investigated
along the eddy path at three areas spanning 660 km by using two mooring arrays and a …