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 …

Oceanic eddies induce a rapid formation of an internal wave continuum

L Yang, R Barkan, K Srinivasan… - … Earth & Environment, 2023 - nature.com
Oceanic internal waves are a major driver for turbulent mixing in the ocean, which controls
the global overturning circulation and the oceanic heat and carbon transport. Internal waves …

Fast-slow wave transitions induced by a random mean flow

S Boury, O Bühler, J Shatah - Physical Review E, 2023 - APS
Motivated by recent asymptotic results in atmosphere-ocean fluid dynamics, we present an
idealized numerical and theoretical study of two-dimensional dispersive waves propagating …

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 …

Linking ocean mixing and overturning circulation

H Burchard, M Alford, M Chouksey… - Bulletin of the …, 2024 - journals.ametsoc.org
2. Context Here, we report on the presentations and discussions that occurred during the
WTD workshop. The topic “Linking ocean mixing and circulation at various scales” provided …

Wave propagation in random two-dimensional turbulence: a multiscale approach

V Resseguier, E Hascoët, B Chapron - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2024 - cambridge.org
To study two-dimensional dispersive waves propagating through turbulent flows, a new and
less restrictive fast waves approximation is proposed using a multiscale setting. In this …

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 …

Wave propagation in random 2D turbulence: a multi-scale approach

V Resseguier, E Hascoët, B Chapron - 2024 - hal.science
To study two-dimensional dispersive waves propagating over turbulent flows, a new and
less restrictive fast waves approximation is proposed using a multiscale setting. In this …

Étude expérimentale et théorique de la turbulence d'ondes internes de gravité

N Lanchon - 2024 - theses.hal.science
La stratification en densité des fluides modifie profondément leur dynamique en permettant
la propagation d'ondes internes de gravité dans leur volume. Leur description, et notamment …