Cascades and transitions in turbulent flows

A Alexakis, L Biferale - Physics Reports, 2018 - Elsevier
Turbulent flows are characterized by the non-linear cascades of energy and other inviscid
invariants across a huge range of scales, from where they are injected to where they are …

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 …

Direct observational evidence of an oceanic dual kinetic energy cascade and its seasonality

D Balwada, JH Xie, R Marino, F Feraco - Science Advances, 2022 - science.org
The ocean's turbulent energy cycle has a paradox; large-scale eddies under the control of
Earth's rotation transfer kinetic energy (KE) to larger scales via an inverse cascade, while a …

Submesoscale transition from geostrophic flows to internal waves in the northwestern Pacific upper ocean

B Qiu, T Nakano, S Chen, P Klein - Nature Communications, 2017 - nature.com
With radar interferometry, the next-generation Surface Water and Ocean Topography
satellite mission will improve the measured sea surface height resolution down to 15 km …

[HTML][HTML] Intrinsic versus practical limits of atmospheric predictability and the significance of the butterfly effect

YQ Sun, F Zhang - Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 2016 - journals.ametsoc.org
Intrinsic versus Practical Limits of Atmospheric Predictability and the Significance of the
Butterfly Effect in: Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences Volume 73 Issue 3 (2016) Jump to …

Quantifying 3D gravity wave drag in a library of tropical convection‐permitting simulations for data‐driven parameterizations

YQ Sun, P Hassanzadeh… - Journal of Advances …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Atmospheric gravity waves (GWs) span a broad range of length scales. As a result, the un‐
resolved and under‐resolved GWs have to be represented using a sub‐grid scale (SGS) …

Statistics of simulated and observed pair separations in the Gulf of Mexico

FJ Beron-Vera, JH LaCasce - Journal of Physical …, 2016 - journals.ametsoc.org
Pair-separation statistics of in situ and synthetic surface drifters deployed near the
Deepwater Horizon site in the Gulf of Mexico are investigated. The synthetic trajectories …

Effective resolution in high resolution global atmospheric models for climate studies

R Klaver, R Haarsma, PL Vidale… - Atmospheric Science …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
We estimate the extent of spatial scales that atmospheric models in a new generation of
global climate models, used in the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project 6, are able to …

A scale‐aware subgrid model for quasi‐geostrophic turbulence

SD Bachman, B Fox‐Kemper… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
This paper introduces two methods for dynamically prescribing eddy‐induced diffusivity,
advection, and viscosity appropriate for primitive equation models with resolutions permitting …

[HTML][HTML] Multi-scale dynamics of the interaction between waves and mean flows: From nonlinear WKB theory to gravity-wave parameterizations in weather and climate …

U Achatz, YH Kim, GS Voelker - Journal of Mathematical Physics, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
The interaction between small-scale waves and a larger-scale flow can be described by a
multi-scale theory that forms the basis for a new class of parameterizations of subgrid-scale …