Heat transport across the Antarctic Slope Front controlled by cross-slope salinity gradients

Y Si, AL Stewart, I Eisenman - Science advances, 2023 - science.org
The Antarctic Slope Front (ASF) is a strong gradient in water mass properties close to the
Antarctic margins, separating warm water from the Antarctic ice sheet. Heat transport across …

Parameterizing eddy buoyancy fluxes across prograde shelf/slope fronts using a slope-aware GEOMETRIC closure

H Wei, Y Wang, J Mak - Journal of Physical Oceanography, 2024 - journals.ametsoc.org
Accurate parameterizations of eddy fluxes across prograde, buoyant shelf and slope
currents are crucial to faithful predictions of the heat transfer and water mass transformations …

Parameterizing mesoscale eddy buoyancy transport over sloping topography

A Nummelin, PE Isachsen - Journal of Advances in Modeling …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Most of the ocean's kinetic energy is contained within the mesoscale eddy field. Models that
do not resolve these eddies tend to parameterize their impacts such that the parameterized …

Toward Parameterizing Eddy-Mediated Transport of Warm Deep Water across the Weddell Sea Continental Slope

N Dettling, M Losch, F Pollmann… - Journal of Physical …, 2024 - journals.ametsoc.org
The transport of warm deep water (WDW) onto the Weddell Sea continental shelf is
associated with heat flux and strongly contributes to the melting of Antarctic ice shelves. The …

Formation of eastern boundary undercurrents via mesoscale eddy rectification

AL Stewart, Y Wang, A Solodoch… - Journal of Physical …, 2024 - journals.ametsoc.org
Abstract Eastern Boundary Upwelling Systems (EBUSs) host equatorward wind-driven near-
surface currents overlying poleward subsurface undercurrents. Various previous theories for …

Global estimation of the eddy kinetic energy dissipation from a diagnostic energy balance

R Torres, R Waldman, J Mak… - Geophysical Research …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Mesoscale eddies dominate the ocean kinetic energy reservoir. However, how and where
this energy flows out from the mesoscale remains uncertain. Here, a simplified mesoscale …

Suppression of mesoscale eddy mixing by topographic PV gradients

MF Sterl, JH LaCasce, S Groeskamp… - Journal of Physical …, 2024 - journals.ametsoc.org
Oceanic mesoscale eddy mixing plays a crucial role in Earth's climate system by
redistributing heat, salt, and carbon. For many ocean and climate models, mesoscale eddies …

Impact of Parameterized Isopycnal Diffusivity on Shelf‐Ocean Exchanges Under Upwelling‐Favorable Winds: Offline Tracer Simulations Augmented by Artificial …

C Xie, H Wei, Y Wang - Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Isopycnal eddy mixing across continental slopes profoundly modulates the ocean circulation
and biogeochemistry. Yet this process must be parameterized in coarse‐resolution ocean …

Bathymetry-Aware Mesoscale Eddy Parameterizations across Upwelling Slope Fronts: A Machine Learning–Augmented Approach

C Xie, H Wei, Y Wang - Journal of Physical Oceanography, 2023 - journals.ametsoc.org
Mesoscale eddy buoyancy fluxes across continental slopes profoundly modulate the
boundary current dynamics and shelf–ocean exchanges but have yet to be appropriately …

[HTML][HTML] Combined physical and biogeochemical assessment of mesoscale eddy parameterisations in ocean models: Eddy-induced advection at eddy-permitting …

X Ruan, D Couespel, M Lévy, J Li, J Mak, Y Wang - Ocean Modelling, 2024 - Elsevier
Ocean general circulation models at the eddy-permitting regime are known to under-resolve
the mesoscale eddy activity and associated eddy-mean interaction. Under-resolving the …