Understanding how turbulence leads to the enhanced irreversible transport of heat and
other scalars such as salt and pollutants in density-stratified fluids is a fundamental and …

Mixing efficiency is the ratio of the net change in potential energy to the energy expended in
producing the mixing. Parameterizations of efficiency and of related mixing coefficients are …

It is generally understood that small-scale mixing, such as is caused by breaking internal
waves, drives upwelling of the densest ocean waters that sink to the ocean bottom at high …

In order that it be correctly characterized, irreversible turbulent mixing in stratified fluids must
distinguish between adiabatic 'stirring'and diabatic 'mixing'. Such a distinction has been …

Turbulent mixing produced by breaking of internal waves plays an important role in setting
the patterns of downwelling and upwelling of deep dense waters and thereby helps sustain …

The Impact of a Variable Mixing Efficiency on the Abyssal Overturning in: Journal of
Physical Oceanography Volume 46 Issue 2 (2016) Jump to Content Jump to Main …

Diapycnal mixing shapes the distribution of climatically important tracers, such as heat and
carbon, as these are carried by dense water masses in the ocean interior. Here, we analyze …

The statistics of intermittent ocean turbulence is the key link between physical understanding
of turbulence and its global implications. The log-normal distribution is the standard but …

Motivated by the importance of small-scale turbulent diapycnal mixing to the closure of the
large-scale meridional overturning circulation (MOC) of the oceans, we focus on a model …

We present a new, simple and physically motivated parameterization, based on the ratio of
Thorpe and Ozmidov scales, for the irreversible turbulent flux coefficient. Importantly …