Scalings for eddy buoyancy fluxes across prograde shelf/slope fronts

H Wei, Y Wang, AL Stewart… - Journal of Advances in …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Depth‐averaged eddy buoyancy diffusivities across continental shelves and slopes are
investigated using a suite of eddy‐resolving, process‐oriented simulations of prograde …

Parameterizing eddy buoyancy fluxes across prograde shelf/slope fronts using a slope-aware GEOMETRIC closure

H Wei, Y Wang, J Mak - Journal of Physical Oceanography, 2024 - journals.ametsoc.org
Accurate parameterizations of eddy fluxes across prograde, buoyant shelf and slope
currents are crucial to faithful predictions of the heat transfer and water mass transformations …

On constraining the mesoscale eddy energy dissipation time‐scale

J Mak, A Avdis, T David, HS Lee, Y Na… - Journal of Advances …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
A physically plausible lower bound on the spatially varying geostrophic mesoscale eddy
energy dissipation time‐scale within the ocean, related to the geographical energy transfer …

Acute sensitivity of global ocean circulation and heat content to eddy energy dissipation timescale

J Mak, DP Marshall, G Madec… - Geophysical Research …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The global ocean overturning circulation, critically dependent on the global density
stratification, plays a central role in regulating climate evolution. While it is well known that …

Velocity perturbations and Reynolds stresses in Holmboe instabilities

AJK Yang, EW Tedford, J Olsthoorn, A Lefauve… - Physics of …, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
The velocity perturbations and Reynolds stresses associated with finite-amplitude Holmboe
instabilities are investigated using linear stability analysis, numerical simulations, and …

Global estimation of the eddy kinetic energy dissipation from a diagnostic energy balance

R Torres, R Waldman, J Mak… - Geophysical Research …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Mesoscale eddies dominate the ocean kinetic energy reservoir. However, how and where
this energy flows out from the mesoscale remains uncertain. Here, a simplified mesoscale …

Bathymetry-Aware Mesoscale Eddy Parameterizations across Upwelling Slope Fronts: A Machine Learning–Augmented Approach

C Xie, H Wei, Y Wang - Journal of Physical Oceanography, 2023 - journals.ametsoc.org
Mesoscale eddy buoyancy fluxes across continental slopes profoundly modulate the
boundary current dynamics and shelf–ocean exchanges but have yet to be appropriately …

Toward Parameterizing Eddy-Mediated Transport of Warm Deep Water across the Weddell Sea Continental Slope

N Dettling, M Losch, F Pollmann… - Journal of Physical …, 2024 - journals.ametsoc.org
The transport of warm deep water (WDW) onto the Weddell Sea continental shelf is
associated with heat flux and strongly contributes to the melting of Antarctic ice shelves. The …

[HTML][HTML] Combined physical and biogeochemical assessment of mesoscale eddy parameterisations in ocean models: eddy induced advection at non-eddying …

X Ruan, D Couespel, M Lévy, J Li, J Mak, Y Wang - Ocean Modelling, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract Ocean components of Earth System Models employed for climate projections do not
routinely resolve mesoscale eddies for computational cost reasons, and the associated …

A vortex-implanted initialization scheme for the mesoscale eddy prediction: Idealized experiments

Y Zhu, S Peng, Y Li - Frontiers in Marine Science, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Mesoscale eddy prediction has been a big challenge to oceanographers and marine
environment forecasters. Although the traditional initialization for the prediction, ie, through …