Internal wave-driven mixing: Governing processes and consequences for climate

CB Whalen, C De Lavergne… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2020 - nature.com
Turbulent mixing from breaking oceanic internal waves drives a vertical transport of water,
heat and other climatically important tracers in the ocean, thereby playing an important role …

[HTML][HTML] Challenges and prospects in ocean circulation models

B Fox-Kemper, A Adcroft, CW Böning… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
We revisit the challenges and prospects for ocean circulation models following Griffies et al..
Over the past decade, ocean circulation models evolved through improved understanding …

[HTML][HTML] Deep-ocean mixing driven by small-scale internal tides

C Vic, AC Naveira Garabato, JAM Green… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Turbulent mixing in the ocean is key to regulate the transport of heat, freshwater and
biogeochemical tracers, with strong implications for Earth's climate. In the deep ocean, tides …

A parameterization of local and remote tidal mixing

C de Lavergne, C Vic, G Madec… - Journal of Advances …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Vertical mixing is often regarded as the Achilles' heel of ocean models. In particular, few
models include a comprehensive and energy‐constrained parameterization of mixing by …

[HTML][HTML] Toward global maps of internal tide energy sinks

C de Lavergne, S Falahat, G Madec, F Roquet… - Ocean Modelling, 2019 - Elsevier
Internal tides power much of the observed small-scale turbulence in the ocean interior. To
represent mixing induced by this turbulence in ocean climate models, the cascade of …

[HTML][HTML] On the consumption of Antarctic Bottom Water in the abyssal ocean

C De Lavergne, G Madec, J Le Sommer… - Journal of Physical …, 2016 - journals.ametsoc.org
On the Consumption of Antarctic Bottom Water in the Abyssal Ocean in: Journal of Physical
Oceanography Volume 46 Issue 2 (2016) Jump to Content Jump to Main Navigation Logo …

[HTML][HTML] On the interplay between horizontal resolution and wave drag and their effect on tidal baroclinic mode waves in realistic global ocean simulations

MC Buijsman, GR Stephenson, JK Ansong, BK Arbic… - Ocean Modelling, 2020 - Elsevier
The effects of horizontal resolution and wave drag damping on the semidiurnal M 2 tidal
energetics are studied for two realistically-forced global HYbrid Coordinate Ocean Model …

[HTML][HTML] Impact of parameterized internal wave drag on the semidiurnal energy balance in a global ocean circulation model

MC Buijsman, JK Ansong, BK Arbic… - Journal of Physical …, 2016 - journals.ametsoc.org
Impact of Parameterized Internal Wave Drag on the Semidiurnal Energy Balance in a Global
Ocean Circulation Model in: Journal of Physical Oceanography Volume 46 Issue 5 (2016) …

[HTML][HTML] Enhanced Dissipation of Internal Tides in a Mesoscale Baroclinic Eddy

Y Wang, S Legg - Journal of Physical Oceanography, 2023 - journals.ametsoc.org
The dissipation of low-mode internal tides as they propagate through mesoscale baroclinic
eddies is examined using a series of numerical simulations, complemented by three …

[HTML][HTML] An energy compartment model for propagation, nonlinear interaction, and dissipation of internal gravity waves

C Eden, D Olbers - Journal of Physical Oceanography, 2014 - journals.ametsoc.org
An Energy Compartment Model for Propagation, Nonlinear Interaction, and Dissipation of
Internal Gravity Waves in: Journal of Physical Oceanography Volume 44 Issue 8 (2014) …