The physical oceanography of the transport of floating marine debris

E Van Sebille, S Aliani, KL Law… - Environmental …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Marine plastic debris floating on the ocean surface is a major environmental problem.
However, its distribution in the ocean is poorly mapped, and most of the plastic waste …

Ocean mesoscale and frontal-scale ocean–atmosphere interactions and influence on large-scale climate: A review

H Seo, LW O'Neill, MA Bourassa, A Czaja… - Journal of …, 2023 - journals.ametsoc.org
Two decades of high-resolution satellite observations and climate modeling studies have
indicated strong ocean–atmosphere coupled feedback mediated by ocean mesoscale …

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 …

Oceanic frontogenesis

JC McWilliams - Annual Review of Marine Science, 2021 - annualreviews.org
Frontogenesis is the fluid-dynamical processes that rapidly sharpen horizontal density
gradients and their associated horizontal velocity shears. It is a positive feedback process …

Small‐scale open ocean currents have large effects on wind wave heights

F Ardhuin, ST Gille, D Menemenlis… - Journal of …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Tidal currents and large‐scale oceanic currents are known to modify ocean wave properties,
causing extreme sea states that are a hazard to navigation. Recent advances in the …

The scale of submesoscale baroclinic instability globally

J Dong, B Fox-Kemper, H Zhang… - Journal of Physical …, 2020 - journals.ametsoc.org
The spatial scale of submesoscales is an important parameter for studies of submesoscale
dynamics and multiscale interactions. The horizontal spatial scales of baroclinic, geostrophic …

Comparing ocean surface boundary vertical mixing schemes including Langmuir turbulence

Q Li, BG Reichl, B Fox‐Kemper… - Journal of Advances …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Six recent Langmuir turbulence parameterization schemes and five traditional schemes are
implemented in a common single‐column modeling framework and consistently compared …

Submesoscale eddies in the upper ocean of the Kuroshio Extension from high-resolution simulation: Energy budget

H Cao, B Fox-Kemper, Z Jing - Journal of Physical …, 2021 - journals.ametsoc.org
The submesoscale energy budget is complex and remains understood only in region-by-
region analyses. Based on a series of nested numerical simulations, this study investigated …

[HTML][HTML] Saildrone: Adaptively sampling the marine environment

CL Gentemann, JP Scott, PLF Mazzini… - Bulletin of the …, 2020 - journals.ametsoc.org
Bowen, BM, 2005: Improved wind and turbulence measurements using low cost 3-D sonic
anemometers at a low wind site. 13th Symp. on Meteorological Observations and …

The role of horizontal divergence in submesoscale frontogenesis

R Barkan, MJ Molemaker, K Srinivasan… - Journal of Physical …, 2019 - journals.ametsoc.org
Oceanic surface submesoscale currents are characterized by anisotropic fronts and
filaments with widths from 100 m to a few kilometers; an O (1) Rossby number; and large …