OceanGliders: a component of the integrated GOOS

P Testor, B De Young, DL Rudnick, S Glenn… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
The OceanGliders program started in 2016 to support active coordination and enhancement
of global glider activity. OceanGliders contributes to the international efforts of the Global …

Global perspectives on observing ocean boundary current systems

RE Todd, FP Chavez, S Clayton, S Cravatte… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Ocean boundary current systems are key components of the climate system, are home to
highly productive ecosystems, and have numerous societal impacts. Establishment of a …

On the role of seamounts in upwelling deep-ocean waters through turbulent mixing

A Mashayek, J Gula, LE Baker… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - pnas.org
Turbulent mixing in the ocean exerts an important control on the rate and structure of the
overturning circulation. However, the balance of processes underpinning this mixing is …

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 …

Energetic submesoscale dynamics in the ocean interior

L Siegelman - Journal of Physical Oceanography, 2020 - journals.ametsoc.org
Submesoscale ocean processes, characterized by order-1 Rossby and Richardson
numbers, are currently thought to be mainly confined to the ocean surface mixed layer …

[HTML][HTML] Basin-scale to submesoscale variability of the east mediterranean sea upper circulation

A Solodoch, R Barkan, V Verma… - Journal of Physical …, 2023 - journals.ametsoc.org
Abstract The East Mediterranean Sea (EMS) circulation has previously been characterized
as dominated by gyres, mesoscale eddies, and disjoint boundary currents. We develop …

Submesoscale coherent vortices observed in the northeastern South China Sea

X Zhang, Z Zhang, JC McWilliams, Z Sun… - Journal of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Although submesoscale coherent vortices (SCVs) have been observed in different parts of
the world's oceans, most of them were captured by accident by a limited number of …

The role of curvature in modifying frontal instabilities. part i: Review of theory and presentation of a nondimensional instability criterion

CE Buckingham, J Gula… - Journal of Physical …, 2021 - journals.ametsoc.org
In this study, we examine the role of curvature in modifying frontal stability. We first evaluate
the classical criterion that the Coriolis parameter f multiplied by the Ertel potential vorticity …

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 …

Observations of submesoscale variability and frontal subduction within the mesoscale eddy field of the Tasman Sea

M Archer, A Schaeffer, S Keating… - Journal of Physical …, 2020 - journals.ametsoc.org
Submesoscale lenses of water with anomalous hydrographic properties have previously
been observed in the East Australian Current (EAC) system, embedded within the …