Mixing efficiency in the ocean

MC Gregg, EA D'Asaro, JJ Riley… - Annual review of marine …, 2018 - annualreviews.org
Mixing efficiency is the ratio of the net change in potential energy to the energy expended in
producing the mixing. Parameterizations of efficiency and of related mixing coefficients are …

Transport, fate and impacts of the deep plume of petroleum hydrocarbons formed during the Macondo blowout

A Bracco, CB Paris, AJ Esbaugh, K Frasier… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
The 2010 Macondo oil well blowout consisted in a localized, intense infusion of petroleum
hydrocarbons to the deep waters of the Gulf of Mexico. A substantial amount of these …

Self-organized criticality in geophysical turbulence

WD Smyth, JD Nash, JN Moum - Scientific reports, 2019 - nature.com
Turbulence in geophysical flows tends to organize itself so that the mean flow remains close
to a stability boundary in parameter space. That characteristic suggests self-organized …

Mixing efficiency in the presence of stratification: When is it constant?

SG Monismith, JR Koseff… - Geophysical Research …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
The efficiency of the conversion of mechanical to potential energy, often expressed as the
flux Richardson number, Rif, is an important determinant of vertical mixing in the ocean. To …

Turbulence in forced stratified shear flows

KM Smith, CP Caulfield, JR Taylor - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2021 - cambridge.org
Continuously forced, stratified shear flows occur in many geophysical systems, including
flow over sills, through fjords and at the mouths of rivers and estuaries. These continuously …

Marginal instability and the efficiency of ocean mixing

WD Smyth - Journal of Physical Oceanography, 2020 - journals.ametsoc.org
The mixing efficiency of stratified turbulence in geophysical fluids has been the subject of
considerable controversy. A simple parameterization, devised decades ago when empirical …

Zooplankton can actively adjust their motility to turbulent flow

FG Michalec, I Fouxon, S Souissi, M Holzner - Proceedings of the National …, 2017 - pnas.org
Calanoid copepods are among the most abundant metazoans in the ocean and constitute a
vital trophic link within marine food webs. They possess relatively narrow swimming …