On the role of seamounts in upwelling deep-ocean waters through turbulent mixing

A Mashayek, J Gula, LE Baker… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - pnas.org
Turbulent mixing in the ocean exerts an important control on the rate and structure of the
overturning circulation. However, the balance of processes underpinning this mixing is …

Numerical simulation of the Kuroshio flowing over the Hirase Seamount in the Tokara Strait in autumn: Tidal vortex shedding in a baroclinic jet

R Inoue, E Tsutsumi… - Journal of Physical …, 2024 - journals.ametsoc.org
Idealized numerical simulations of the Kuroshio western boundary current flowing over the
Hirase seamount were conducted to examine the mechanisms of phenomena observed by …

Turbulence generation via nonlinear lee wave trailing edge instabilities in Kuroshio‐seamount interactions

YY Yeh, MH Chang, RC Lien, JX Chang… - Journal of …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Physical processes behind flow‐topography interactions and turbulent transitions are
essential for parameterization in numerical models. We examine how the Kuroshio …