Closing the loops on Southern Ocean dynamics: From the circumpolar current to ice shelves and from bottom mixing to surface waves

LG Bennetts, CJ Shakespeare… - Reviews of …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
A holistic review is given of the Southern Ocean dynamic system, in the context of the crucial
role it plays in the global climate and the profound changes it is experiencing. The review …

Observed equatorward propagation and chimney effect of near‐inertial waves in the midlatitude ocean

X Yu, AC Naveira Garabato, C Vic… - Geophysical …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The propagation characteristics of near‐inertial waves (NIWs) and how mesoscale and
submesoscale processes affect the waves' vertical penetration are investigated using …

[HTML][HTML] The Generation and Propagation of Wind-and Tide-Induced Near-Inertial Waves in the Ocean

Y Li, Z Xu, X Lv - Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, 2024 - mdpi.com
Near-inertial waves (NIWs), a special form of internal waves with a frequency close to the
local Coriolis frequency, are ubiquitous in the ocean. NIWs play a crucial role in ocean …

Modal content of typhoon-induced near-inertial waves around the East China Sea

A Cao, S Wang, A Morimoto, T Takikawa… - Continental Shelf Research, 2023 - Elsevier
Recent studies show that typhoon-induced near-inertial waves (NIWs) exhibit different
modal content in the shallow and deep regions, whereas the underlying mechanism has not …

Mixing Driven by Critical Reflection of Near-Inertial Waves over the Texas–Louisiana Shelf

L Qu, LN Thomas, RD Hetland… - Journal of Physical …, 2022 - journals.ametsoc.org
Studies of internal wave-driven mixing in the coastal ocean have been focused on internal
tides, while wind-driven near-inertial waves (NIWs) have received less attention in this …

Slope‐intensified storm‐induced near‐inertial oscillations in the South China sea

R Li, C Chen, W Dong, RC Beardsley… - Journal of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The South China Sea (SCS) is a region vulnerable to tropical cyclones (TCs). An
array of moored current meters and meteorological buoys was deployed within major …

Local winds and encroaching currents drive summertime subsurface blooms over a narrow shelf

TL Schlosser, AJ Lucas, NL Jones… - Limnology and …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The ability to forecast the biological productivity of the coastal ocean relies on the
quantification of the physical processes that deliver nutrients to the euphotic zone. Here we …

Parametric Subharmonic Instability of the M2 Internal Tides in the Tokara Strait

S Wang, X Guo, A Cao, E Tsutsumi… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Tokara Strait is a mixing hotspot due to the coexistence of complex bottom
topographies and strong composite flow including both the Kuroshio and tidal currents …

Observation of near‐inertial waves induced by typhoon Lan in the Northwestern Pacific: Characteristics, energy fluxes and impact on diapycnal mixing

S Yuan, X Yan, L Zhang, C Pang… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Based on mooring observations from October 10 to 5 November 2017 at four stations in the
Northwestern Pacific, the characteristics of four strong near‐inertial wave (NIW) packets …

Near-inertial ocean response to a typhoon on a continental slope in the Northern South China Sea

H Zhang, R Wu, F Liu, X Ni, D Tian - Frontiers in Marine Science, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Typhoons are strong natural events that significantly influence the marine environment. In
2018, Typhoon Mangkhut traveled over a moored station with a depth~ 1900 m on …