Interacting internal waves explain global patterns of interior ocean mixing

G Dematteis, A Le Boyer, F Pollmann, KL Polzin… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Across the stable density stratification of the abyssal ocean, deep dense water is slowly
propelled upward by sustained, though irregular, turbulent mixing. The resulting mean …

Eddy–internal wave interactions and their contribution to cross-scale energy fluxes: A case study in the California current

A Delpech, R Barkan, K Srinivasan… - Journal of Physical …, 2024 - journals.ametsoc.org
Oceanic mixing, mostly driven by the breaking of internal waves at small scales in the ocean
interior, is of major importance for ocean circulation and the ocean response to future …

Eddy–internal wave interactions: Stimulated cascades in cross-scale kinetic energy and enstrophy fluxes

R Barkan, K Srinivasan… - Journal of Physical …, 2024 - journals.ametsoc.org
The interactions between oceanic mesoscale eddies, submesoscale currents, and internal
gravity waves (IWs) are investigated in submesoscale-resolving realistic simulations in the …

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 …

Spectral flux decomposition in a wind‐driven channel flow with near‐inertial waves

M Shaham, R Barkan - Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth …, 2025 - Wiley Online Library
In recent years it has become evident that the spatiotemporal distribution of oceanic kinetic
energy (KE) is strongly influenced by the interactions between oceanic mesoscale eddies …

[HTML][HTML] Dynamic analysis on the interaction of two successive internal solitary waves with a ridge

Y Guo, Q Li, X Chen, J Peng, X He - Physics of Fluids, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
Internal solitary waves (ISWs) typically manifest as soliton or wave trains in the ocean.
Previous studies have extensively explored the dynamic properties of individual ISWs over …

A one-dimensional model for investigating scale-separated approaches to the interaction of oceanic internal waves

KL Polzin, YV Lvov - Journal of Physical Oceanography, 2025 - journals.ametsoc.org
High-frequency wave propagation in near-inertial wave shear has, for four decades, been
considered fundamental in setting the spectral character of the oceanic internal wave …

INTRODUCTION TO THE SPECIAL ISSUE ON NISKINe

HL Simmons, LS Laurent, L Rainville, L Thomas - Oceanography, 2024 - JSTOR
December 2024| Oceanography 7 from satellite altimetry was selected as the study site
(Figure 1). The particular dipole targeted was identified in the weeks prior to the onset of the …

A Second Take: On Performative Writing and Reading

P Phelan - TDR, 2024 - cambridge.org
In the 1990s, performative writing and reading attempted to disrupt the rhetorical and
ideological structure of scholarly writing. Performative readings helped expose the ways in …

The Impact of Mesoscale Flows on the Identification, Energy Partitioning and Propagation of Near-Inertial Internal Waves

J Rama - 2024 - search.proquest.com
Near-inertial waves (NIWs) contain a significant fraction of the ocean internal wave energy
and can propagate long distances from their source before breaking. The dissipation of …