Lagrangian ocean analysis: Fundamentals and practices

E Van Sebille, SM Griffies, R Abernathey, TP Adams… - Ocean modelling, 2018‏ - Elsevier
Lagrangian analysis is a powerful way to analyse the output of ocean circulation models and
other ocean velocity data such as from altimetry. In the Lagrangian approach, large sets of …

Complexity of mesoscale eddy diffusivity in the ocean

I Kamenkovich, P Berloff, M Haigh… - Geophysical Research …, 2021‏ - Wiley Online Library
Stirring of water by mesoscale currents (“eddies”) leads to large‐scale transport of many
important oceanic properties (“tracers”). These eddy‐induced transports can be related to …

Backscatter in energetically-constrained Leith parameterizations

I Grooms - Ocean Modelling, 2023‏ - Elsevier
This paper combines two strains in the literature on subgrid-scale parameterizations for
eddying ocean models to develop six new parameterizations and test them in an idealized …

[HTML][HTML] The impact of horizontal resolution on energy transfers in global ocean models

J Kjellsson, L Zanna - Fluids, 2017‏ - mdpi.com
The ocean is a turbulent fluid with processes acting on a variety of spatio-temporal scales.
The estimates of energy fluxes between length scales allows us to understand how the …

[HTML][HTML] Deformation and destruction of north-eastward drifting dipoles

J Davies, GG Sutyrin, MN Crowe, PS Berloff - Physics of Fluids, 2023‏ - pubs.aip.org
We systematically study the evolution of Larichev–Reznik dipoles in an equivalent-
barotropic quasi-geostrophic beta-plane model in high-resolution numerical simulations …

[HTML][HTML] On the spontaneous symmetry breaking of eastward propagating dipoles

J Davies, GG Sutyrin, P Berloff - Physics of Fluids, 2023‏ - pubs.aip.org
The spontaneous symmetry breaking of weak eastward propagating dipoles is revealed
from high-resolution numerical simulations in an equivalent-barotropic quasigeostrophic …

[HTML][HTML] Baroclinic vortex pulsars in unstable westward flows

P Berloff, GG Sutyrin - Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena, 2024‏ - Elsevier
We present a computational modeling study of geophysical coherent vortices embedded in
horizontally homogeneous, baroclinically unstable, westward background flows with vertical …