[HTML][HTML] Progress in understanding of Indian Ocean circulation, variability, air–sea exchange, and impacts on biogeochemistry

HE Phillips, A Tandon, R Furue, R Hood… - Ocean …, 2021‏ - os.copernicus.org
Over the past decade, our understanding of the Indian Ocean has advanced through
concerted efforts toward measuring the ocean circulation and air–sea exchanges, detecting …

Fluid dynamics challenges in predicting plastic pollution transport in the ocean: A perspective

BR Sutherland, M DiBenedetto, A Kaminski… - Physical Review …, 2023‏ - APS
Plastic pollution has been observed throughout the world's oceans and estuaries, whether
floating at the surface, settled in bottom sediments, washed up on beaches, or ingested by …

Submesoscale processes and mixing

J Gula, J Taylor, A Shcherbina, A Mahadevan - Ocean mixing, 2022‏ - Elsevier
In this chapter, we discuss the links between oceanic submesoscale (100 m–10 km)
processes and mixing. Submesoscale currents occur on lateral scales of 100 m–10 km in …

The scale and activity of symmetric instability estimated from a global submesoscale-permitting ocean model

J Dong, B Fox-Kemper, H Zhang… - Journal of Physical …, 2021‏ - journals.ametsoc.org
Symmetric instability (SI) extracts kinetic energy from fronts in the surface mixed layer (SML),
potentially affecting the SML structure and dynamics. Here, a global submesoscale …

Modifying the mixed layer eddy parameterization to include frontogenesis arrest by boundary layer turbulence

AS Bodner, B Fox-Kemper, L Johnson… - Journal of Physical …, 2023‏ - journals.ametsoc.org
Current submesoscale restratification parameterizations, which help set mixed layer depth in
global climate models, depend on a simplistic scaling of frontal width shown to be unreliable …

Submesoscales are a significant turbulence source in global ocean surface boundary layer

J Dong, B Fox-Kemper, JO Wenegrat… - Nature …, 2024‏ - nature.com
The turbulent ocean surface boundary layer is a key part of the climate system affecting both
the energy and carbon cycles. Accurately simulating the boundary layer is critical in …

Submesoscale fronts in the Antarctic marginal ice zone and their response to wind forcing

S Swart, MD du Plessis, AF Thompson… - Geophysical …, 2020‏ - Wiley Online Library
Submesoscale flows in the ocean are energetic motions, O (1–10 km), that influence
stratification and the distributions of properties, such as heat and carbon. They are believed …

Wind‐forced symmetric instability at a transient mid‐ocean front

X Yu, AC Naveira Garabato, AP Martin… - Geophysical …, 2019‏ - Wiley Online Library
Mooring and glider observations and a high‐resolution satellite sea surface temperature
image reveal features of a transient submesoscale front in a typical mid‐ocean region of the …

Bay of Bengal intraseasonal oscillations and the 2018 monsoon onset

E Shroyer, A Tandon, D Sengupta… - Bulletin of the …, 2021‏ - journals.ametsoc.org
Abstract In the Bay of Bengal, the warm, dry boreal spring concludes with the onset of the
summer monsoon and accompanying southwesterly winds, heavy rains, and variable air …

Submesoscale dynamics in the Bay of Bengal: Inversions and instabilities

T McKie, AJ Lucas, J MacKinnon - Journal of Geophysical …, 2024‏ - Wiley Online Library
High resolution shipboard observations reveal the complex processes controlling the
evolution and subduction of a cold and salty, dense filament in the Bay of Bengal (BoB). The …