Mixing driven by breaking nonlinear internal waves

NL Jones, GN Ivey, MD Rayson… - Geophysical Research …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Non‐linear internal waves (NLIW) are important to processes such as heat transfer, nutrient
replenishment and sediment transport on continental shelves. Our unique field observations …

The three‐dimensional internal tide radiation and dissipation in the Mariana arc‐trench system

C Zhao, Z Xu, R Robertson, Q Li… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Internal tides are energetic in the Mariana arc, but their three‐dimensional radiation and
dissipation remain unexplored, particularly the trench‐arc‐basin impacts. Here, the …

Directional decomposition of internal tides propagating from multiple generation sites

Y Gong, MD Rayson, NL Jones, GN Ivey - Ocean Modelling, 2021 - Elsevier
Internal tides generated from multiple sites create complicated interference patterns, often
making it difficult to identify the origin, direction of propagation, and dissipation of individual …

Joint Effects of Winds and Tides on Near-Inertial Internal Waves in the Northern South China Sea: A Three-Dimensional Numerical Study

Y Gong, Z Chen, R Zhao, J Xu, J Li… - Journal of Physical …, 2024 - journals.ametsoc.org
Joint effects of winds and tides on near-inertial internal waves (NIWs) are numerically
investigated via a series of three-dimensional quasi-realistic simulations in the northern …

The lifecycle of topographically-generated internal waves

R Musgrave, F Pollmann, S Kelly, M Nikurashin - Ocean mixing, 2022 - Elsevier
The dissipation and mixing associated with topographically generated internal waves form a
critical component of ocean physics. In this chapter, we present a review of the basic …

A seasonal harmonic model for internal tide amplitude prediction

MD Rayson, NL Jones, GN Ivey… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
We present an empirical model of the seasonal variability of the internal tide using seasonal
harmonics to modulate the amplitude of the fundamental tidal constituents. Internal tide data …

On tidal modulation of the evolution of internal solitary-like waves passing through a critical point

X Bai, KG Lamb, J Hu, Z Liu - Journal of Physical …, 2021 - journals.ametsoc.org
Internal solitary-like waves (ISWs) evolve considerably when passing through a critical point
separating the deep water where ISWs are waves of depression and shallower water where …

4D-Var data assimilation using satellite sea surface temperature to improve the tidally-driven interior ocean dynamics estimates in the Indo-Australian Basin

I Janeković, MD Rayson, NL Jones, P Watson… - Ocean Modelling, 2022 - Elsevier
Estimating ocean processes in regions with sparse observations, and where dynamics are
dominated by strong barotropic and baroclinic tides, poses a significant modelling …

Ocean mixing in a shelf sea driven by energetic internal waves

CA Whitwell, NL Jones, GN Ivey… - Journal of …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Internal waves drive ocean mixing and enhance the transport of heat, momentum and other
tracers in shelf seas. We collected observations of mixing over a 30‐day period from three …

Numerical simulations of generation and propagation of internal tides in the Andaman Sea

W Wang, Y Gong, Z Wang, C Yuan - Frontiers in Marine Science, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The generation and propagation of internal tides in the Andaman Sea are investigated using
a three-dimensional high-resolution numerical model. Three categories of experiments …