Closing the loops on Southern Ocean dynamics: From the circumpolar current to ice shelves and from bottom mixing to surface waves

LG Bennetts, CJ Shakespeare… - Reviews of …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
A holistic review is given of the Southern Ocean dynamic system, in the context of the crucial
role it plays in the global climate and the profound changes it is experiencing. The review …

Interacting internal waves explain global patterns of interior ocean mixing

G Dematteis, A Le Boyer, F Pollmann, KL Polzin… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Across the stable density stratification of the abyssal ocean, deep dense water is slowly
propelled upward by sustained, though irregular, turbulent mixing. The resulting mean …

Near-inertial waves reaching the deep basin in the South China Sea after typhoon Mangkhut (2018)

H Zheng, XH Zhu, R Zhao, J Chen… - Journal of Physical …, 2023 - journals.ametsoc.org
Typhoon Mangkhut crossed the northeastern South China Sea (SCS) in September 2018
and induced energetic near-inertial waves (NIWs) that were captured by an array of 39 …

Resolving the Horizontal Direction of Internal Tide Generation: Global Application for the M 2 Tide's First Mode

F Pollmann, J Nycander - Journal of Physical Oceanography, 2023 - journals.ametsoc.org
Breaking internal tides contribute substantially to small-scale turbulent mixing in the ocean
interior and hence to maintaining the large-scale overturning circulation. How much internal …

Internal Lee wave generation from geostrophic flow in the Northwestern Pacific ocean

J Li, Z Xu, Z Hao, J You, P Zhang… - Journal of Physical …, 2023 - journals.ametsoc.org
Among the global mapping of lee wave generation, a missing piece exists in the
northwestern Pacific Ocean (NPO), which features complex topographies and energetic …

The structure of energy fluxes in wave turbulence

G Dematteis, YV Lvov - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2023 - cambridge.org
We calculate the net energy per unit time exchanged between two sets of modes in a
generic system governed by a three-wave kinetic equation. Our calculation is based on the …

Observed Structure of an Internal Tide Beam Over the Mid‐Atlantic Ridge

C Vic, B Ferron - Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Internal tides are key players in ocean dynamics above mid‐ocean ridges. The generation
and propagation of internal tides over the Mid‐Atlantic Ridge (MAR) have been studied …

Parameterized internal wave mixing in three ocean general circulation models

N Brüggemann, M Losch, P Scholz… - Journal of Advances …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The non‐local model of mixing based on internal wave breaking, IDEMIX, is implemented as
an enhancement of a turbulent kinetic energy closure model in three non‐eddy resolving …

Linking ocean mixing and overturning circulation

H Burchard, M Alford, M Chouksey… - Bulletin of the …, 2024 - journals.ametsoc.org
2. Context Here, we report on the presentations and discussions that occurred during the
WTD workshop. The topic “Linking ocean mixing and circulation at various scales” provided …

[HTML][HTML] Coastal trapped waves: Normal modes, evolution equations, and topographic generation

SM Kelly, S Ogbuka - Journal of Physical Oceanography, 2022 - journals.ametsoc.org
Coastal trapped waves (CTWs) transport energy along coastlines and drive coastal currents
and upwelling. CTW modes are nonorthogonal when frequency is treated as the eigenvalue …