A diagnosis of anisotropic eddy diffusion from a high‐resolution global ocean model

SD Bachman, B Fox‐Kemper… - Journal of Advances in …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Oceanic mesoscale eddies are known to diffuse and stir tracers, and the development of
skillful eddy closures is aided considerably by the accurate diagnosis of these processes …

A forward energy flux at submesoscales driven by frontogenesis

K Srinivasan, R Barkan… - Journal of Physical …, 2023 - journals.ametsoc.org
Submesoscale currents, comprising fronts and mixed-layer eddies, exhibit a dual cascade of
kinetic energy: a forward cascade to dissipation scales at fronts and an inverse cascade …

Global observations of horizontal mixing from Argo float and surface drifter trajectories

CJ Roach, D Balwada, K Speer - Journal of Geophysical …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Mixing by mesoscale eddies in the ocean plays a major role in setting the distribution of
oceanic tracers, with important implications for physical and biochemical systems at local to …

Isopycnal mixing

R Abernathey, A Gnanadesikan, MA Pradal… - Ocean mixing, 2022 - Elsevier
Stirring in the neutral (ie, isopycnal) direction drives isopycnal mixing, which acts to
homogenise tracers along the neutral plane. Isopycnal mixing does not directly enter the …

[HTML][HTML] Multistability and Rare Spontaneous Transitions in Barotropic β -Plane Turbulence

E Simonnet, J Rolland… - Journal of the Atmospheric …, 2021 - journals.ametsoc.org
We demonstrate that turbulent zonal jets, analogous to Jovian ones, which are quasi
stationary, are actually metastable. After extremely long times, they randomly switch to new …

Full‐depth scalings for isopycnal eddy mixing across continental slopes under upwelling‐favorable winds

H Wei, Y Wang - Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Mesoscale eddy mixing profoundly modulates the ocean tracer budgets, and is typically
parameterized via the isopycnal eddy diffusivity in ocean climate models. However …

[HTML][HTML] Jupiter's unearthly jets: A new turbulent model exhibiting statistical steadiness without large-scale dissipation

SI Thomson, ME McIntyre - Journal of the Atmospheric …, 2016 - journals.ametsoc.org
Jupiter’s Unearthly Jets: A New Turbulent Model Exhibiting Statistical Steadiness without
Large-Scale Dissipation in: Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences Volume 73 Issue 3 (2016) …

Dynamically consistent parameterization of mesoscale eddies. Part I: Simple model

P Berloff - Ocean Modelling, 2015 - Elsevier
This work aims at developing a framework for dynamically consistent parameterization of
mesoscale eddy effects for use in non-eddy-resolving ocean circulation models. The …

A multifaceted isoneutral eddy transport diagnostic framework and its application in the Southern Ocean

J Xie, H Liu, P Lin - Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
We propose an isoneutral eddy transport diagnostic framework and apply it in the Southern
Ocean to analyze eddy potential vorticity (PV) transport dynamics. We leverage a thickness …

Suppression of mesoscale eddy mixing by topographic PV gradients

MF Sterl, JH LaCasce, S Groeskamp… - Journal of Physical …, 2024 - journals.ametsoc.org
Oceanic mesoscale eddy mixing plays a crucial role in Earth's climate system by
redistributing heat, salt, and carbon. For many ocean and climate models, mesoscale eddies …