Submesoscale Routes to Lateral Mixing in the Ocean

Abstract

We aim to understand the role of submesoscale processes in lateral mixing at scales of order 0.1-10 km and to determine whether it arises as a downscale cascade from balanced mesoscale dynamics or due to localized coherent features associated with a loss of balance, internal waves and surface forcing.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 30, 2013
Accession Number
ADA597969

Entities

People

  • Amala Mahadevan
  • Amit Tandon

Organizations

  • University of Massachusetts Dartmouth

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Balances
  • Buoyancy
  • Dispersions
  • Dissipation
  • Dynamics
  • Energy
  • Energy Transfer
  • Filaments
  • Instability
  • Internal Waves
  • Kinetic Energy
  • Layers
  • Mixing
  • Observation
  • Potential Energy
  • Turbulent Mixing
  • Wind Stress

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

  • Ocean-Atmosphere Mesoscale Modeling, Data Assimilation, and Flux Boundary Layers