Turbulence theories and statistical closure approaches

Y Zhou - Physics Reports, 2021 - Elsevier
When discussing research in physics and in science more generally, it is common to ascribe
equal importance to the three components of the scientific trinity: theoretical, experimental …

Submesoscale inverse energy cascade enhances Southern Ocean eddy heat transport

Z Zhang, Y Liu, B Qiu, Y Luo, W Cai, Q Yuan… - nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Oceanic eddy-induced meridional heat transport (EHT) is an important process in the
Southern Ocean heat budget, the variability of which significantly modulates global …

Global energy spectrum of the general oceanic circulation

BA Storer, M Buzzicotti, H Khatri, SM Griffies… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Advent of satellite altimetry brought into focus the pervasiveness of mesoscale eddies O
(100) km in size, which are the ocean's analogue of weather systems and are often regarded …

Three-dimensional structure of oceanic mesoscale eddies

Z Zhang, G Wang, H Wang, H Liu - Ocean-Land-Atmosphere …, 2024 - spj.science.org
Mesoscale eddies contribute to the global oceanic energy budget and cascade; they induce
substantial mass and heat transport, thus playing a key role in the global climate system …

Global cascade of kinetic energy in the ocean and the atmospheric imprint

BA Storer, M Buzzicotti, H Khatri, SM Griffies… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
Here, we present an estimate for the ocean's global scale transfer of kinetic energy (KE),
across scales from 10 to 40,000 km. Oceanic KE transfer between gyre scales and …

Kinetic energy transfers between mesoscale and submesoscale motions in the open ocean's upper layers

ACN Garabato, X Yu, J Callies… - Journal of Physical …, 2022 - journals.ametsoc.org
Mesoscale eddies contain the bulk of the ocean's kinetic energy (KE), but fundamental
questions remain on the cross-scale KE transfers linking eddy generation and dissipation …

Eddy activity in the Arctic Ocean projected to surge in a warming world

X Li, Q Wang, S Danilov, N Koldunov, C Liu… - Nature Climate …, 2024 - nature.com
Ocean eddies play a critical role in climate and marine life. In the rapidly warming Arctic, little
is known about how ocean eddy activity will change because existing climate models cannot …

Quantifying 3D gravity wave drag in a library of tropical convection‐permitting simulations for data‐driven parameterizations

YQ Sun, P Hassanzadeh… - Journal of Advances …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Atmospheric gravity waves (GWs) span a broad range of length scales. As a result, the un‐
resolved and under‐resolved GWs have to be represented using a sub‐grid scale (SGS) …

Anticipated capabilities of the ODYSEA wind and current mission concept to estimate wind work at the air–sea interface

H Torres, A Wineteer, P Klein, T Lee, J Wang… - Remote Sensing, 2023 - mdpi.com
The kinetic energy transfer between the atmosphere and oceans, called wind work, affects
ocean dynamics, including near-inertial oscillations and internal gravity waves, mesoscale …

Measuring scale-dependent shape anisotropy by coarse-graining: Application to inhomogeneous Rayleigh-Taylor turbulence

D Zhao, H Aluie - Physical Review Fluids, 2023 - APS
We generalize the “filtering spectrum” to probe scales along different directions by spatial
coarse-graining. This multidimensional filtering spectrum quantifies the spectral content of …