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 …

Toward regional characterizations of the oceanic internal wavefield

KL Polzin, YV Lvov - Reviews of geophysics, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Many major oceanographic internal wave observational programs of the last 4 decades are
reanalyzed in order to characterize variability of the deep ocean internal wavefield. The …

[HTML][HTML] Finescale parameterizations of turbulent dissipation

KL Polzin, JM Toole, RW Schmitt - Journal of physical …, 1995 - journals.ametsoc.org
Fine-and microstructure data from a free fall profiler are analysed to test models that relate
the turbulent dissipation rate (ε) to characteristics of the internal wave field. The data were …

Estimates of diapycnal mixing in the abyssal ocean

JM Toole, RW Schmitt, KL Polzin - Science, 1994 - science.org
Profiles of diapycnal eddy diffusivity to a maximum depth of 4000 meters were derived from
ocean velocity and temperature microstructure data obtained in conjunction with separate …

[HTML][HTML] Estimating the mean diapycnal mixing using a finescale strain parameterization

CB Whalen, JA MacKinnon, LD Talley… - Journal of Physical …, 2015 - journals.ametsoc.org
Estimating the Mean Diapycnal Mixing Using a Finescale Strain Parameterization in: Journal of
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[HTML][HTML] Observations of overturning in the thermocline: The context of ocean mixing

MH Alford, R Pinkel - Journal of Physical Oceanography, 2000 - journals.ametsoc.org
Observations of Overturning in the Thermocline: The Context of Ocean Mixing in: Journal of
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[HTML][HTML] Microstructure measurements from an underwater glider in the turbulent Faroe Bank Channel overflow

I Fer, AK Peterson, JE Ullgren - Journal of Atmospheric and …, 2014 - journals.ametsoc.org
Microstructure Measurements from an Underwater Glider in the Turbulent Faroe Bank Channel
Overflow in: Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology Volume 31 Issue 5 (2014) Jump …

Log-skew-normality of ocean turbulence

BB Cael, A Mashayek - Physical Review Letters, 2021 - APS
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 …

Seasonal and spatial variability of near-inertial kinetic energy from historical moored velocity records

MH Alford, M Whitmont - Journal of Physical Oceanography, 2007 - journals.ametsoc.org
Temporal and spatial patterns of near-inertial kinetic energy (KE moor) are investigated in a
database of 2480 globally distributed, moored current-meter records (deployed on 690 …

[HTML][HTML] The finescale response of lowered ADCP velocity profiles

K Polzin, E Kunze, J Hummon… - Journal of Atmospheric …, 2002 - journals.ametsoc.org
The Finescale Response of Lowered ADCP Velocity Profiles in: Journal of Atmospheric and
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